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noun

Coward n. A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon. "A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse."

Synonyms: Craven; poltroon; dastard.

verb

Coward v. t. To make timorous; to frighten. (Obs.) "That which cowardeth a man's heart."

adjective

Coward adj.

(Her.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; said of a lion.

Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly. "Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch."

Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity. "He raised the house with loud and coward cries." "Invading fears repel my coward joy."

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Etymology of 'Coward'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coward" Quotes from Famous Books

... went on without turning, not with the hurried step of a coward, but still as one stunned. Then, sitting quietly in the saddle, she forgot McGurk and remembered Pierre. He was happy by this time with the girl of the yellow hair; there was nothing remaining to her from him except the ominous cross which touched cold against ...

— Riders of the Silences • Max Brand

... were here again, what should I do? I cannot wish him here—and yet I cannot bear his dead face. I was a coward. I ought to have borne contempt. I ought to have gone away—gone and wandered like a beggar rather than to stay to feel like a fiend. But turn where I would there was something I could not bear. Sometimes I thought he would kill me if I resisted his will. But now—his dead ...

— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

... you," said he, "let him alone, or I'll have to make you," and he gave Slodgers a quiet sort of tap on the chest that had the effect of at once stopping his advance, the bully and coward, as he seemed to me to be, retiring sulkily to the corner of the yard under the tree, accompanied by two of his select cronies, grumbling in an undertone about "somebody's" meddlesomeness in interfering with "other people's business," although he did not take any further ...

— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson

... coward, what a sheep, would the Chevalier de Croustillac appear in the eyes of Blue Beard if he were so pusillanimous as to be daunted by ...

— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue

... myself. He tried to prove to me that if he died the economic value of his children would suffer—what a fool he was!—and that my own value capitalised after the manner of mathematicians was very small. I listened to him carefully, and then asked if the difference between a brave man and a coward had any economic significance. He became suddenly angry and left me. Some of the ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

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