v. [f. COWARD sb. + -IZE.] trans. To make a coward of; to render cowardly; to daunt. Hence Cowardizing vbl. sb.
1629. H. Burton, Babel no Bethel, Ded. 6. The cowardizing of our English spirits.
1648. Gage, West Ind., xix. (1655), 139. Now they are cowardized, oppressed, unarmed.
1667. Flavel, Saint Indeed (1754), 57. It is guilt upon the conscience that softens and cowardizes our spirits.
1840. Blackw. Mag., XLVIII. 261. That the poverty and slavery they were bred up in should cowardize them.
Cowardize, obs. form of COWARDICE.
