coward

Definitions

1. A person who lacks courage.
2. A surname originating as an occupation.
3. A person who lacks courage
4. Cowardly
5. Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs
6. To intimidate

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: big baby, baby”

“Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]”

“1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He tortured himself to find⟳ out how he could make⟳ his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put⟳ it off to times that he again deferred.”

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