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Definition of Cringing
1. Adjective. Totally submissive.
Definition of Cringing
1. Verb. (present participle of cringe) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cringing
1. cringe [v] - See also: cringe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cringing
Literary usage of Cringing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... as one " who had the respect of rectors, the veneration of vicars, the admiration
of archdeacons, and the cringing courtesy of curates. ..."
2. Paris in 1789-94: Farewell Letters of Victims of the Guillotine by John Goldworth Alger (1902)
"... CHAPTER IX PRISON DOCUMENTS Fouquier Tinville—The Revolutionary Tribunal—Letters,
cringing and defiant—Desmoulins—Lavoisier—Princess ..."
3. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1879)
"There is the military parasite, haunting the Horse Guards, and cringing after
good civil or military posts, to the exclusion of men who have served their ..."
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