单词 | dastardy |
释义 | dastardyn. archaic. The quality of a dastard; base or mean cowardice. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > base cowardice wickedness1487 dastardness1519 currishness1542 dastardliness1561 dastardy1588 poltroonery1590 beggar-fear1597 dastardice1603 poorness1625 low-spiritedness1641 poltroonism1644 sheepiness1663 cravenness1850 1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People 19 The whole world deriding our effeminate dastardie. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 491/1 Far from any suspition of dastardie. a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3533 Which did especially aggravate the Israelites Dastardy. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 298 We must bear with those that are above us..without Dastardy and Baseness. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 168 Why run ye thus..into the hearts of men Scattering dastardy? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1588 |
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