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Coyness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Reserve; unwillingness to become familiar; disposition to avoid free intercourse, by silence or retirement.

2. When the kind nymph would coyness feign, and hides but to be found again.

Coyness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.