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Definition of Groveling
1. Adjective. Totally submissive.
Definition of Groveling
1. a. Lying prone; low; debased.
Definition of Groveling
1. Verb. (American English) (present participle of grovel) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Groveling
1. grovel [v] - See also: grovel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groveling
Literary usage of Groveling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect by Hezekiah Niles (1822)
"In support of such a cause, directed by such я leader, who would think his life
too dear a suer ce?—let the mean, base, groveling soul, that wishes for ..."
2. Records of a Girlhood by Fanny Kemble (1879)
"... a nature be at once groveling and majestic. Besides, Shakespeare has not made
Shylock '' poetical.'' The concentrated venom of his passion is prosaic in ..."
3. Eminent British Lawyers by Henry Roscoe (1830)
"... a name debased by the most mean and groveling ambition, by thorough want of
principle, and by the profligate abandonment of high and honourable feeling. ..."
4. A Hebrew Anthology: A Collection of Poems and Dramas Inspired by the Old by George Alexander Kohut (1913)
"... As though by viewless lightnings struck to earth, Lie groveling on the pavement,
and they clench Their vacant hands in horror. ..."
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