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Definition of Coyest
1. coy [adj] - See also: coy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coyest
Literary usage of Coyest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Drama of Sensibility: A Sketch of the History of English Sentimental by Ernest Bernbaum (1915)
"It was a French play that taught Whitehead how to " catch the coyest features of
the mind," — or, better, of the heart.1 The School for Lovers is an ..."
2. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1826)
"... called coyest, seems to have excited much agitation with the natives there,
and no little ill-blood among those principally concerned. ..."
3. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1826)
"... called coyest, seems to have excited much agitation with the natives there,
... The origin of the present dispute appears to lie in a coyest ..."
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