Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Timid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cowardly.
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- adjective
cowardly
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or Isocrates, that was so cowhearted that he dared never attempt it?
In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958
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By Maundy Thursday, the first of ye all that comes to me on such an account shall be fitted; for the only penance I'll enjoin shall be, that he immediately throw himself headlong overboard into the sea like a base cowhearted son of ten fathers.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Or Isocrates, that was so cowhearted that he dared never attempt it?
The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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I’ll enjoin shall be, that he immediately throw himself headlong overboard into the sea like a base cowhearted son of ten fathers.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I’ll enjoin shall be, that he immediately throw himself headlong overboard into the sea like a base cowhearted son of ten fathers.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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