[f. CRAVEN a. + -LY2.] In a craven manner.

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a. 1591.  H. Smith, Wks. (1867), II. 479.

        Too cracking or too cravenly,
Too hateful or too gratefully.

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1622.  S. Ward, Life of Faith in Death (1627), 64. He neither foolishly thinkes to resist … nor … crauenly yeelds.

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1887.  Chicago Advance, 18 Aug., 521. They grovel cravenly under dread of what may be termed the ‘social boycott.’

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