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.