单词 | cowering |
释义 | coweringadj. That cowers: see the verb. ΚΠ c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 35 Hir colde and cowherand syer. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 76 Nowther the roe, nor the rein-deir dun, The hinde nor the couryng grew. 1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey ix. 96 A servile band of cowering slaves. Derivatives ˈcoweringly adv. in a cowering manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adverb] > in a cowering or flinching manner coweringly1821 flinchingly1883 1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends lxxiii Which coweringly ye sought to shun. 1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 70 ‘I'll never luik at it’..answered Shargar, coweringly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > as lemmasˈcowering ˈcowering n. ΚΠ 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind iii. 47 Cowering or crouching is so natural an expression of fear. < adj.c1430 as lemmas |
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