bashfulness

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Let the inscription on my tombstone be—'Died of Bashfulness.'

From The Blunders of a Bashful Man by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller

Bashfulness cost him horrid torments, of course exasperating his conceit.

From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George

"Bashfulness might be overcome, but not the conviction that I am unworthy of her."

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von

On the side of the head we have Modesty and Reverence, the former running down into Bashfulness and the latter into Humility or Servility.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

Bashfulness is the struggle between the two self-instincts, assertion and abasement.

From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.