Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion.
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Coyness
/kɔɪnɛs/
Synonyms for "coyness" (21 found)
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6 entriesaffectednesscommunication strategydiscourse strategylinguistic featurepersonality traitsocial behavior
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5 entriescoyness as a strategycoyness in reportingcoyness in speechprofessional coynesspublic display of coyness
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Former Harvard professor and communist Noel Ignatiev, who co-founded the New Abolitionist Society and founded a journal called Race Traitor, named after a book he coauthored in the mid-1990s, famously advocated for the complete abolition of the white race […] Note a certain coyness about whether this destruction refers to only a white race category or to all white-skinned people.
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