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- obsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of cowardice.
The word, Tu mihi criminis author (alluding to his Princes commaund) thou art the occasion of my imputed cowardise.
1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton1 more example
The next day how my master the Gardener sped, I knew not, but the gentle souldier, who was well beaten for his cowardise, lead me to his lodging without the contradiction of any man: Where hee laded me well, and garnished my body (as seemed to me) like an Asse of armes.
1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse
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