esquividad
Spanish
Noun
esquividad f (plural esquividades)
- (Archaic) shyness, timidness, elusiveness
- Synonym: esquivez
- (Can we date this quote?), Garcilaso de la Vega, Égloga I:
- "Por ti el silencio de la selva umbrosa / por ti la esquividad y apartamiento / del solitario monte me agradaba"
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “esquividad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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