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Craven vs Diffident - What's the difference?

craven | diffident |

As a proper noun craven

is .

As an adjective diffident is

(archaic): lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

craven

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.

    Derived terms

    * cry craven

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coward.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He is a craven and a villain else.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make .
  • * 1609 : , Act III, Scene IV
    • There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.

    References

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    Anagrams

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    diffident

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic): Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
  • Lacking confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
  • *
    • Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.}}