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  • noun Plural form of cowardice.

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Examples

  • Repent for me because I do not have the breath to last through my cowardices.

    breakthedark Diary Entry breakthedark 2003

  • Ambiguous feelings are turned to ashes there; and so are doubts, hesitations, timidities, trepidations, cowardices.

    Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

  • "Then whatever he did on The Patriot, whatever compromises he yielded to or -- or cowardices --" she winced at the words -- "were done to save his place; to save me."

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • In the old days you aroused my hatred by your tyrannies and your injustices; to-day you weary and disgust me by your ineffable cowardices, from that gentleman in Paris who now calls himself

    The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • How many of us mourn over our past follies and cowardices, bitterly regretting the wasted moment or the lost opportunity?

    The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907

  • This hybrid image of ruin, derived from nullity, concept and contradiction in which all _décadence_ instincts, all cowardices and lassitudes of soul have their sanction!

    Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Various 1904

  • All the things that go on inside you, the cruel, dreadful things; the cowardices and treacheries.

    The Creators A Comedy May Sinclair 1904

  • Thus between two cowardices, one of which I must choose, stood I, like the ass of Buridan.

    The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896

  • This hybrid image of decay, conjured up out of emptiness, contradiction and vain imagining, in which all the instincts of décadence, all the cowardices and wearinesses of the soul find their sanction!

    The Antichrist 1895

  • There _are_ all sorts of disgusting cowardices and weaknesses in you!

    Delia Blanchflower Humphry Ward 1885

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