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Cowardice vs Cowardise - What's the difference?

cowardice | cowardise |

As nouns the difference between cowardice and cowardise

is that cowardice is lack of courage while cowardise is .

cowardice

English

(wikipedia cowardice)

Noun

  • Lack of courage.

    • Synonyms

    * cowardliness

    Related terms

    * coward * cowardly

    cowardise

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1594, author=Thomas Nash, title=The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The word, Tu mihi criminis author (alluding to his Princes commaund) thou art the occasion of my imputed cowardise . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}