Cowardice

Cow′ard-ice

(-ĭs)

,

Noun.

[F.

couardise

, fr.

couard

. See

Coward

.]

Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

The

cowardice

of doing wrong.

Milton.

Moderation was despised as

cowardice

.

Macaulay.

Cowardice

COWARDICE

,

Noun.

Want of courage to face danger; timidity; pusillanimity; fear of exposing ones person to danger.

Cowardice alone is loss of fame.

Did cowardice; did injustice ever save a sinking state.

cowardice

English

Noun

cowardice ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cowardices)

Lack of courage.

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the lack of courage

Arabic: جَبَانَة f ‎(jabāna)
Bulgarian: страхливост ‎(strahlivost)
Catalan: covardia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 膽怯 (zh), 胆怯 (zh) ‎(dǎnqiè), 怯懦 (zh) ‎(qiènuò)
Czech: zbabělost f
Danish: fejhed c
Dutch: lafheid (nl)
Esperanto: malkuraĝeco
Finnish: pelkuruus (fi)
French: lâcheté (fr) f
German: Feigheit (de) f, Kleinmut m, Ängstlichkeit f
Greek: δειλία (el) f ‎(deilía), ανανδρία (el) f ‎(anandría)
Guaraní: py'amirĩ
Hebrew: פחדנות f ‎(pakhdanut)
Hindi: कायरता (hi) ‎(kāyartā)
Hungarian: gyávaság (hu)
Icelandic: gunguskapur m, heigulsháttur m, ragmennska f, bleyði f

Ido: poltroneso (io), deskurajo (io)
Indonesian: kepengecutan (id)
Interlingua: coardia
Italian: codardia (it), viltà (it), pusillanimità, vigliaccheria
Japanese: 憶病 ‎(おくびょう, okubyō)
Korean: 비겁 (ko) ‎(bi geop)
Kurdish: newêrekî (ku), tirsokî (ku), tirsonekî (ku), bêcesaretî (ku), bêcuretî (ku)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: feighet m, f

Nynorsk: feigskap m
Old Norse: bleyði f, argskapr m, hugbleyði f, geitarhugr m, klaeki n, ragmennska f, ragskapr m, regi f
Portuguese: covardia (pt) f
Romanian: poltronerie (ro) f, lașitate (ro) f
Russian: тру́сость (ru) f ‎(trúsostʹ), малоду́шие (ru) n ‎(malodúšije), бзде́ние (ru) c ‎(bzdénije) (vulgar)
Scottish Gaelic: cladhaireachd f
Spanish: cobardía (es) f
Swedish: feghet (sv) c
Telugu: పిరికితనము (te) ‎(pirikitanamu)
Volapük: dredöf (vo)

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