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- adverb In a
cowering manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Light worker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment.
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Alison was, she understood, supposed to be insulted, disgusted and coweringly intimidated by this, and thus rendered tearful, trembling and crushed.
Be My Enemy Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2004
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This they attributed to the presence of the gorilla's skin; but when they saw Grandpa continue to dash wildly about the cabin, from their shoulders to the rear window, out of which he would take a quick look only to fly back to them and chatter wildly and coweringly, Paul thought he would see what could be the trouble.
Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser
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She took an involuntary step backward, encountered the chair she had just left, and sank into it coweringly.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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She took an involuntary step backward, encountered the chair she had just left, and sank into it coweringly.
Fanny Herself 1917
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He walked coweringly round and round his room, with frantic gestures, with head bowed.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914
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He walked coweringly round and round his room, with frantic gestures, with head bowed.
Zuleika Dobson 1911
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"Ay," returned Lord Andrew; "but the royal spirit keeps the beast in awe: – see how coweringly that bold brow now bows before it!"
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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As he spoke, he shrank coweringly backwards, out of the room; his wavering, unquiet eyes fixed upon mine as long as we remained within view of each other: a moment afterwards, I heard him dart into his chamber, and bolt and double-lock the door.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 Various 1841
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