| 释义 |
cowardliness|ˈkaʊədlɪnɪs|
[f. next + -ness.]
The quality of being cowardly; cowardice.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices (1556) 53 b, Leste..slouthfulnesse, or cowardlinesse, or some such thing appeare. 1614Bp. Hall Recollect. Treat. 1011 It is a base cowardlinesse..to thinke of running away. a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) II. 174 The ill nature of the one side and the cowardliness of the other. 1827Coleridge Table-t. 21 July, The cowardliness and impolicy of the Nonconformists, at the Restoration. 1876C. M. Yonge Womankind iv. 26 The cowardliness of the action. |