Bible Dictionaries
Cowardly

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

(2):

(a.) Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.

(3):

(adv.) In the manner of a coward.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cowardly'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/cowardly.html. 1828.