aukwardness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]aukwardness (countable and uncountable, plural aukwardnesses)
- Obsolete form of awkwardness.
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 220:
- I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural aukwardness.