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cowardise
cowardise
English
Noun
cowardise (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of cowardice
- 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.