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Date: 1100-1200
Origin: Perhaps from Old French crevant, present participle of crever 'to burst, break'

craven

 adjective
     
cra‧ven
formal completely lacking courage [= cowardly]:
He had a craven fear of flying.
—cravenly adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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