Craven vs Coward - What's the difference?
craven | coward |
Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
* Sir Walter Scott
To make .
* 1609 : , Act III, Scene IV
A person who lacks courage.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Cowardly.
*, II.17:
*:It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
English words suffixed with -ard
As adjectives the difference between craven and coward
is that craven is unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly while coward is cowardly.As nouns the difference between craven and coward
is that craven is a coward while coward is a person who lacks courage.As proper nouns the difference between craven and coward
is that craven is {{surname|lang=en} while Coward is {{surname}.As a verb craven
is to make craven.craven
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.
Derived terms
* cry cravenVerb
(en verb)- There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.
References
* *Anagrams
* * English adjectives ending in -en ----coward
English
Noun
(en noun)- He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward , he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
Synonyms
* chicken * See alsoDerived terms
* cowardly * cowardiceAdjective
(en adjective)- He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
- Invading fears repel my coward joy.
