2. Proceeding from or expressive of fear, or timidity; as coward cry; coward joy.
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2. A coward does not always escape with disgrace, but sometimes loses his life.
3. In heraldry, a term given to a lion borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
1. Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
3. Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
2. COWARDICE alone is loss of fame.
3. Did cowardice; did injustice ever save a sinking state.
Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
Resembling a coward; mean.
3. Proceeding from fear of danger; as cowardly silence.
1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
Cowardice. [Not used.]
Cowardice Roget’s Thesaurus §862
N. cowardice, pusillanimity, cowardliness, timidity, effeminacy, poltroonery, baseness, dastardness, dastardy, abject fear, funk, dutch courage, fear, white feather, faint heart, cold feet *, yellow streak*, coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant, shy cock, dunghill cock, coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say "bo" to a goose, slink, bob acres, jerry sneak, alarmist, terrorist|, pessimist, runagate
V. quail, be cowardly, be a coward, funk, cower, skulk, sneak, flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail, run away, show, the white feather
Adj. coward, cowardly, fearful, shy, timid, timorous, skittish, poor- spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate, weak-minded, infirm of purpose, weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted, white- livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksop, smock-faced, unable to say "bo" to a goose, dastard, dastardly, base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant, unwarlike, unsoldier-like, "in face a lion but in heart a deer", unmanned, frightened
Int. sauve qui peut, [French: every man for himself], devil take the hindmost, phr, ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out, degeneres animos timor arguit
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1 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “Coward”
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a merchant concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of selling; nor with an envious man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; nor with the slothful for any work; nor with an hireling for a year of finishing work; nor with an idle servant of much business: hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.