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Word Meanings - POLTROON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak. (more info) sluggard, coward, poltro idle, lazy, also, bed, fr. OHG. polstar,

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  • COWARDICE
    Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.
  • POLTROONERY
    Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.
  • POLTROON
    An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak. (more info) sluggard, coward, poltro idle, lazy, also, bed, fr. OHG. polstar,
  • CRAVEN
    Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
  • DASTARDLINESS
    The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
  • COWARDIE
    Cowardice.
  • DASTARD
    One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak. (more info) p. of dæsa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become
  • COWARDLINESS
    Cowardice.
  • POLTROONISH
    Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.
  • DASTARDNESS
    Dastardliness.
  • RENEGADE
    One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay. One who deserts from a military
  • COWARDSHIP
    Cowardice. Shak.
  • COWARDLY
    1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak. 2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly
  • DASTARDY
    Base timidity; cowardliness.
  • DASTARDLY
    Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
  • COWARDISH
    Cowardly. " A base and a cowardish mind." Robynson
  • COWARD
    Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion. 2. Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly. Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch. Shak. 3. Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear
  • DASTARDIZE
    To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. Dryden.
  • RECREANT
    to forsake, leave, tire, discourage, regard as conquered, LL. recredere se to declare one's self conquered in combat; hence, those are called recrediti or recreanti who are considered infamous; L. pref. re- again, back + credere to believe, to
  • COWARDIZE
    To render cowardly. God . . . cowardizeth . . . insolent spirits. Bp. Hall.

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