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Definition of an Emotion — Part III

Latin

Timor est cupiditas majus quod metuimus malum minore vitandi. Vide scholium propositionis 39 hujus.

English (Elwes 1883)

Timidity is the desire to avoid a greater evil, which we dread, by undergoing a lesser evil. Cf. III. xxxix. note.

Modern English

Timidity is the desire to avoid a greater evil that we fear by submitting to a lesser one. See the scholium of Proposition 39 of this Part (E3P39S).

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