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craven

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
craven/ˈkreɪvn/

▶adjective contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly. ▶noun archaic a cowardly person.

– derivatives
cravenly adverb,
cravenness noun.

– origin ME cravant ‘defeated’, perh. via Anglo-Norman Fr. from OFr. cravanter ‘crush, overwhelm’, based on L. crepare ‘burst’.

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