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12 words match “COWARDICE”

COWARDICE n.
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.
COWARDIE n.
Cowardice. [Obs.]
COWARDLINESS n.
Cowardice.
COWARDSHIP n.
Cowardice. [Obs.] Shak.
DASTARDLINESS n.
The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
ENTIRE a.
re or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.
FEATHER n.
ows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous.[Colloq.] -- To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed.
POLTROONERY n.
Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.
POST v.
oach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. Granville.
PROTEST v.
ffirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty. I will protest your cowardice. Shak.
PUSILLANIMITY n.
of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness. The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. Shak. It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility. South.
SHAME v.
To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace. And with foul cowardice his carcass shame. Spenser.