dastardy arch.
(ˈdɑːstədɪ, -æ-)
Also 6–7 -ie.
[f. dastard n. + -y, after cowardy, bastardy.]
The quality of a dastard; base or mean cowardice.
| 1588 Allen Admon. 19 The whole world deriding our effeminate dastardie. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. 22 Farre from any suspition of dastardy. a 1640 Jackson Creed xi. xxiv. Wks. X. 461 Which did especially aggravate the Israelites dastardy. 1706 Collier Refl. Ridic. 298 We must bear with those that are above us..without dastardy and baseness. 1850 Blackie æschylus II. 168 Why run ye thus..into the hearts of men Scattering dastardy? |