softly softly vs timidly

softly softly

adv

  • In a very tactful, careful, or nondisruptive manner. 

adj

  • Discreet, low-key, careful. 

timidly

adv

  • In a timid manner. 

How often have the words softly softly and timidly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )