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cowardize en · NOUN · etymology 1
Meanings
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(alt-of, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
The ſecond property of your excellent ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled) left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the invvards to the partes extreames, […]
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
cowardize en · VERB · etymology 2
Etymology
From coward + -ize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To render (someone or something) cowardly, to cause to become a coward.
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