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verecundor

to feel bashful

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Where it lives

De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

vĕrēcundor — Lewis & Short

vĕrēcundor, āri,

I v. dep. n. [verecundus], to feel bashful or ashamed, to be shy or diffident (rare but class.): verecundari neminem apud mensam decet, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 77: hi nostri amici verecundantur, capti splendore virtutis, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 480, 17: aliquem cunctantem et quasi verecundantem incitare, id. de Or. 3, 9, 36.— With inf.: Sp. Carvilio graviter claudicanti ex vulnere ... et ob eam causam verecundanti in publicum prodire, Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 249.—

II Transf., of things: (manus) probant, admirantur, verecundantur, express shame, Quint. 11, 3, 87.

In the wild

verecundantur Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.87
verecundantem Cicero, De Oratore 3.36
verecundanti Cicero, De Oratore 2.249

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