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craven
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Craven \Cra"ven\, n. [Formerly written also cravant and cravent.] A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.
King Henry. Is it fit this soldier keep his oath?
Fluellen. He is a craven and a villain else.
--Shak.
Syn: Coward; poltroon; dastard.
Craven \Cra"ven\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cravened (-v'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cravening.] To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly. [Obs.]
There is a prohibition so divine,
That cravens my weak hand.
--Shak.
Craven \Cra"ven\ (kr?"v'n), a. [OE. cravant, cravaunde, OF.
cravant? struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to
break, crush, strike down, fr. an assumed LL. crepantare, fr.
L. crepans, p. pr. of crepare to break, crack, rattle. Cf.
Crevice, Crepitate.]
Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. ``His craven heart.''
--Shak.
The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.
--Sir. W.
Scott.
In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., cravant, perhaps from Old French crevante "defeated," past participle of cravanter "to strike down, to fall down," from Latin crepare "to crack, creak." Sense affected by crave and moved from "defeated" to "cowardly" (c.1400) perhaps via intermediary sense of "confess oneself defeated." Related: Cravenly; cravenness.
Wiktionary
n. (surname: English)
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 38150
Land area (2000): 708.426888 sq. miles (1834.817138 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 65.715334 sq. miles (170.201927 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 774.142222 sq. miles (2005.019065 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.095872 N, 77.061834 W
Headwords:
Craven, NC
Craven County
Craven County, NC
Wikipedia
Craven is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England centred on the market town of Skipton. In 1974, Craven district was formed as the merger of Skipton urban district, Settle Rural District and most of Skipton Rural District, all in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The population of the Local Authority at the 2011 Census was 55,409. It comprises the upper reaches of Airedale, Wharfedale, Ribblesdale, and includes most of the Aire Gap and Craven Basin.
The name Craven is much older than the modern district, and encompassed a larger area. This history is also reflected in the way the term is still commonly used, for example by the Church of England.
Craven is an electoral ward in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, West Yorkshire, England. The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 16,373.
It encompasses the villages of Steeton in the south, Silsden in the centre and Addingham in the north.
It is adjacent to the Craven district of North Yorkshire.
Craven is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England.
Craven may also refer to:
Craven is the surname of:
- Avery Craven (1885–1980), American historian
- Beverley Craven (born 1963), British singer and songwriter
- Danie Craven (1910–1993), South African rugby union player, national coach, rugby administrator, academic and author
- Danny Craven (born 1967), former Australian rules footballer
- Danny Craven (rugby league) (born 1991), English rugby league player
- Greg Craven (academic) (born 1958), Vice-Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University
- Greg Craven (teacher), climate change activist known for YouTube viral video
- James Craven (disambiguation)
- John Craven (disambiguation)
- Joseph Craven (disambiguation)
- Kyle Craven (born 1989), American internet celebrity
- Lyndley Craven (1945–2014), Australian botanist
- Margaret Craven (politician) (born 1944), American state senator in Maine
- Margaret Craven (writer) (1901–1980), American author
- Matt Craven (born 1956), Canadian actor
- Murray Craven (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player
- Peter Craven (1934–1963), English motorcycle racer
- Peter Craven (literary critic), Australian writer
- Philip Craven (born 1950), British sports administrator, president of the International Paralympic Committee
- Ricky Craven (born 1966), American NASCAR driver
- Robert Craven (born 1955), American politician
- Thomas Tingey Craven (rear admiral) (1808–1887), United States Navy officer who served in the Civil War
- Thomas Tingey Craven (US Navy admiral) (1873–1950), United States Navy officer who served in World Wars I and II, grandson of the above
- Tunis Craven (1813–1864), U.S. naval officer, brother of Thomas Tingey Craven
- T.A.M. Craven (1893–1972), U.S. naval officer and FCC commissioner
- Wes Craven (1939–2015), American film director
- William Craven (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "craven".
And how quickly he regained his domineering manner once it was slaked, the falsehearted craven.
Madame Swetchine enjoyed friendships of extraordinary strewth and preciousness with the Countess de Nesselrode, the Princess Galitzin, Madame de Saint Aulaire, the Duchess de Duras, the Marchioness de Lillers, Madame Craven, the Duchess de la Rochefoucauld, and many other women of noble natures and rich interior lives.
And Tolteca, whose charge they were, broke its ranks like cravens, and let the Mias through!
This is the year that commissioners have brought new dimensions to the word craven.
All through that weary night my uncle and I, with Belcher, Berkeley Craven, and a dozen of the Corinthians, searched the country side for some trace of our missing man, but save for that ill-boding splash upon the road not the slightest clue could be obtained as to what had befallen him.
They tell me you have welded a fine body of fighting men out of consular cravens and taught all of us how best to deal with rebellious slaves.
Force Has never being from celestial source, And is the lord of cravens, not of men.
Rains, and the knights are bored out of their minds from inaction and drunk or wenching most of the time, and there is no one left to serve me but cravens and fools and traitorous tricksters plotting to take my kingdom once the Ruwendian demon-trulls have finished me off!
But this craven melting in his heart was rebuked by a very worthy pride, that flew for support to the injury she had done to his devotions, and the offence to the sacred edifice.
Craven knew and as Grimes knew, theory and practice do not always coincide.
It is a spell of light and power-- The watchword of the free:-- Who spurns it in the trial-hour, A craven soul is he!
Indeed, most of our nomologists at home believe that all taboos originally arose out of ancestral ghost-worship, and sprang from the craven fear of dead kings or dead relatives.
As he stared at the broken bauble, the big, muscular man began to cry and moan of how the Holy See and its chosen captain, di Bolgia, had ruined him and Munster, driving loyal bonaghts and galloglaiches and even noble FitzGerald kinsmen away from their loving sovran, leaving him and Munster now defenseless except for craven, money-grubbing oversea mercenaries, with no true loyalty of bravery in them not reckoned in grams of gold and ounces of silver.
K Crooked Chiropractors, Degenerate Dentists Medicare Medicos, Harlot Heart Surgeons Nutty Neurologists, Craven Cardiologists Improbable Proctologists, Petty Pornographers Huge Urologists, Incensed Internists Demoncats, all!
We are glad that he has concluded never to revisit our town, altho', incredible as it may appear, the fellow really did contemplate so doing last summer, when, still true to the craven instincts of his black heart, he wrote the hireling knaves of the obscure journal across the street to know what they would charge for 400 small bills, to be done on yellow paper!