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dastardy arch.|ˈdɑːstədɪ, -æ-|
Also 6–7 -ie.
[f. dastard n. + -y, after cowardy, bastardy.]
The quality of a dastard; base or mean cowardice.
1588Allen Admon. 19 The whole world deriding our effeminate dastardie. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. 22 Farre from any suspition of dastardy. a1640Jackson Creed xi. xxiv. Wks. X. 461 Which did especially aggravate the Israelites dastardy. 1706Collier Refl. Ridic. 298 We must bear with those that are above us..without dastardy and baseness. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 168 Why run ye thus..into the hearts of men Scattering dastardy? |