retiring
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retiring
- introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
- I don't really know him well, since he's so shy and retiring.
- 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 10:
- My uncle, as I can remember, was retiring in his disposition, scarcely ever visiting any one and not more frequently receiving any visitors.
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LX, in Jennie Gerhardt[1]:
- Lester was in the thick of social and commercial affairs; he walked in paths to which Jennie's retiring soul had never aspired.
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preferring their own company, liking privacy
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retiring
- present participle and gerund of retire
- Today is the party for our retiring co-workers.
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retiring (plural retirings)
- retirement
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:
- One day of those his retirings [sic], giving out that he was sick, his father Antigonus came on the sudden to visit him, and met a fair dainty youth coming out of his chamber.