Meaning & use
cravens
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Cowardly people; those who shrink from danger or difficulty out of fear (archaic or literary usage).
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The old ballad mocked the cravens who fled at the first sound of battle.
He branded the deserters cravens for abandoning their posts.
A note on using this word
"Craven" functions mainly as an adjective today (a craven excuse), but it began as a Middle English noun for a defeated or cowardly person, a sense that survives in formal or literary writing.
Words with a similar meaning
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