† cowardshipn.
Obsolete.
The action or behaviour of a coward; cowardice.
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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun]
arghtha1250
arghshipc1275
faintise1297
cowardicec1300
cowardshipc1330
arghness1340
arghhoodc1350
sheepnessc1380
pusillanimitya1393
cowardnessa1400
neshnessa1400
cowardyc1405
lithernessc1425
lashness1477
cowardrya1547
meagreness?1553
cowardliness1556
micropsychy1651
buzzardism1659
stanielry1659
manlessness1667
cow-heartedness1718
pusillanimousness1727
chicken-heartedness1808
infortitude1813
plucklessness1824
white-featherism1843
cold feet1893
yellow1893
liver-heartedness1897
yellowness1909
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 9210 Our cowardschippe we may it wite.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xi. f. 80v He..blameth the cowardship of them that..did further debate the matter.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 380 More a coward then a Hare..for his cowardship aske Fabian. View more context for this quotation
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n.c1330- to put again
- to put all one's eggs in one basket
- to put all one's irons in the fire
- to put alsoset a person on guard
- to put alsoset a person on his guard
- to put alsoset on guard
- to put alsoset on his guard
- to put an ape in a person's hood
- to put an end to
- to put an oar in every man's boat
- to put apart
- to put aside
- to put asunder
- to put at
- to put at advantage
- to put at an advantage
- to put at no reverence
- to put at one's worse
- to put at rest
- to put at the stone
- to put at the worse
- to put at the worst
- to put away
- to put back
- to put back in his box