timorously

“I came very late and timorously to the uses of power,” she wrote in her diary in 1968.

No matter how timorously her hand went up, Miss Briggs happened to see it.

We strut as a bully in the world but cower timorously at home.

Does this mean that US investors should cower timorously at home, and not venture into the dangerous waters overseas?

And Trelinski's timorously S&M "Bluebeard" has the added advantage of "Fifty Shades of Grey" timing.