different between daunt vs coward
daunt
English
Etymology
From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin domit? (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin dom? (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *demh?- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??nt/
- (some accents) IPA(key): /d??nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /d?nt/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /d?nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt, -??nt
Verb
daunt (third-person singular simple present daunts, present participle daunting, simple past and past participle daunted)
- (transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Dutan
Middle English
Verb
daunt
- Alternative form of daunten
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coward
English
Etymology
From Middle English coward, from Old French coart, cuard ( > French couard), from coue (“tail”), coe + -ard (pejorative agent noun suffix); coue, coe is in turn from Latin cauda. The reference seems to be to an animal “turning tail”, or having its tail between its legs, especially a dog. Unrelated to English cower. Displaced native Old English earg.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: kou'?d, IPA(key): /?ka??d/
- (US) enPR: kou'?rd, IPA(key): /?ka??d/
- Hyphenation: co?ward
- Homophone: cowered
Noun
coward (plural cowards)
- A person who lacks courage.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Synonyms
- chicken
- scaredy pants
- yellowbelly
- See also Thesaurus:coward
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
coward (comparative more coward, superlative most coward)
- Cowardly.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
- He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, 2nd edition, p. 89,[2]
- Invading Fears repel my Coward Joy;
- And Ills foreseen the pleasant Bliss destroy.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
- (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
Verb
coward (third-person singular simple present cowards, present participle cowarding, simple past and past participle cowarded)
- (transitive, obsolete) To intimidate.
- 1820, John Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus
- The first he coped with was their captain, whom / His sword sent headless to seek out a tomb. / This cowarded the valour of the rest, […]
- 1820, John Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus
References
- Coward in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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