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Definition of Coynesses
1. coyness [n] - See also: coyness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coynesses
Literary usage of Coynesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"... and smiles and glances ; little sharp speeches, which are supposed to be witty—
little artificial coynesses, which are supposed to be fascinating. ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1887)
"They know how to touch and pass with a graceful stroke or two, the delicate toying
of light-of-loves, the coynesses, the coquetting, the half playful ..."
3. One Hundred Best Books: With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading by John Cowper Powys (1922)
"to their " life's work," are, to my thinking, like the wretches who throw flowers
into graves. What sacrilege, to trail the reluctances and coynesses, ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1865)
"You have none of the pretty little mock coynesses that most women affect.
You speak out more openly than many would be willing to do. ..."
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