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Definition of Cravened
1. craven [v] - See also: craven
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cravened
Literary usage of Cravened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and by Francis Quarles, Ursula Quarles, Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1813)
"Dejected souls, cravened with their own distrusts, are the world's footballs, to
be kicked and spurned; but brave and true heroic spirits, that know the ..."
2. Boanerges and Barnabas; judgment and mercy or wine and oil for wounded by Francis Quarles (1855)
"Dejected souls, cravened with their own distrusts, are the world's foot-balls to
be kicked and spurned: but brave and true heroic spirits, that know the ..."
3. A Sketch of the Life and Writings of Robert Knox, the Anatomist by Henry Lonsdale (1870)
"He seemed blind to the cravened ignorance of the masses and the uncultured thought
of the higher ranks even of the profession itself; and that gods and men ..."
4. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1882)
"... The genius of the king bends under mine : Environed with his guards, he durst
not touch me; But awed and cravened, as he had been spelled, ! ..."
5. The Church Seasons: Historically and Poetically Illustrated by Alexander Henley Grant (1881)
"The true-bred gamester ups afresh, and then Falls to 't again ; Whereas the
leaden-hearted coward lies, And yields his conquered life, or cravened dies. ..."
6. Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and by Francis Quarles, Ursula Quarles, Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1813)
"Dejected souls, cravened with their own distrusts, are the world's footballs, to
be kicked and spurned; but brave and true heroic spirits, that know the ..."
7. Boanerges and Barnabas; judgment and mercy or wine and oil for wounded by Francis Quarles (1855)
"Dejected souls, cravened with their own distrusts, are the world's foot-balls to
be kicked and spurned: but brave and true heroic spirits, that know the ..."
8. A Sketch of the Life and Writings of Robert Knox, the Anatomist by Henry Lonsdale (1870)
"He seemed blind to the cravened ignorance of the masses and the uncultured thought
of the higher ranks even of the profession itself; and that gods and men ..."
9. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1882)
"... The genius of the king bends under mine : Environed with his guards, he durst
not touch me; But awed and cravened, as he had been spelled, ! ..."
10. The Church Seasons: Historically and Poetically Illustrated by Alexander Henley Grant (1881)
"The true-bred gamester ups afresh, and then Falls to 't again ; Whereas the
leaden-hearted coward lies, And yields his conquered life, or cravened dies. ..."
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