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Definition of Cravenness
1. Noun. Meanspirited cowardice.
Definition of Cravenness
1. Noun. The state of being craven ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cravenness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cravenness
Literary usage of Cravenness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman, Hippolyte Havel (1910)
"Their success, however, is due not to individualism, but to the inertia, the
cravenness, the utter submission of the mass: ..."
2. The American Negro: What He Was, what He Is, and what He May Become; a by William Hannibal Thomas (1901)
"In giving publicity to these facts, I am actuated neither by prejudice, sentiment,
cravenness, nor egotism, ..."
3. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces by Isidore Singer, William Guild Howard (1914)
"The masterly fourth act presents the manufacturers and their social views from
within—their cravenness, their real difficul- ties, their genuine inability ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"It was pure, ignoble cravenness, a sheer consuming sickness of terror, without
pride in his cause if without regret for his action. ..."
5. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"A sentence taken out of its context was misconstrued into a catch-phrase indicating
the cravenness of a nation wedded to its flesh-pots, which pretended a ..."
6. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"A sentence taken out of its context was misconstrued into a catch-phrase indicating
the cravenness of a nation wedded to its flesh-pots, which pretended a ..."
7. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1882)
"Really, Grettel,' she said, as soon as she had partially recovered herself, 'your
cravenness is past all bearing. Before you allowed yourself to be half ..."
8. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1893)
"We were afraid; whereas the fear was a selfish fear and a miserable cravenness,
and ought to have been eradicated and blown away as if by contemptuous winds ..."
9. Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman, Hippolyte Havel (1910)
"Their success, however, is due not to individualism, but to the inertia, the
cravenness, the utter submission of the mass: ..."
10. The American Negro: What He Was, what He Is, and what He May Become; a by William Hannibal Thomas (1901)
"In giving publicity to these facts, I am actuated neither by prejudice, sentiment,
cravenness, nor egotism, ..."
11. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces by Isidore Singer, William Guild Howard (1914)
"The masterly fourth act presents the manufacturers and their social views from
within—their cravenness, their real difficul- ties, their genuine inability ..."
12. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"It was pure, ignoble cravenness, a sheer consuming sickness of terror, without
pride in his cause if without regret for his action. ..."
13. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"A sentence taken out of its context was misconstrued into a catch-phrase indicating
the cravenness of a nation wedded to its flesh-pots, which pretended a ..."
14. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"A sentence taken out of its context was misconstrued into a catch-phrase indicating
the cravenness of a nation wedded to its flesh-pots, which pretended a ..."
15. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1882)
"Really, Grettel,' she said, as soon as she had partially recovered herself, 'your
cravenness is past all bearing. Before you allowed yourself to be half ..."
16. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1893)
"We were afraid; whereas the fear was a selfish fear and a miserable cravenness,
and ought to have been eradicated and blown away as if by contemptuous winds ..."
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