caitiff

[Cai·tiff]

A cowardly and despicable person

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Captive; wretched; unfortunate.

Noun
a cowardly and despicable person

Adjective S.
despicably mean and cowardly

a.
Captive; wretched; unfortunate.

a.
Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable.

n.
A captive; a prisoner.

n.
A wretched or unfortunate man.

n.
A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet.

Caitiff

Cai"tiff , a. [OE. caitif, cheitif, captive, miserable, OF. caitif, chaitif, captive, mean, wretched, F. ch'82tif, fr. L. captivus captive, fr. capere to take, akin to E. heave. See Heave, and cf. Captive.] 1. Captive; wretched; unfortunate. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable.

Arnold had sped his caitiff flight.

Caitiff

Cai"tiff, n. A captive; a prisoner. [Obs.]

Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave.

2. A wretched or unfortunate man. [Obs.] Chaucer. 3. A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet. The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the change of meaning which caitiff has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it. Trench.

Captive; wretched; unfortunate.

A captive; a prisoner.

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