cowardise

English

Noun

cowardise (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of cowardice
    • 1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton‎:
      The word, Tu mihi criminis author (alluding to his Princes commaund) thou art the occasion of my imputed cowardise.
    • 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse‎:
      The next day how my master the Gardener sped, I knew not, but the gentle souldier, who was well beaten for his cowardise, lead me to his lodging without the contradiction of any man: Where hee laded me well, and garnished my body (as seemed to me) like an Asse of armes.

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