What is the quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden called?
coyness — The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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