retiring

“I don't really know him well, since he's so shy and retiring.”

“My uncle, as I can remember, was retiring in his disposition, scarcely ever visiting any one and not more frequently receiving any visitors.”

“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.”

“Today is the party for our retiring co-workers.”