noun
- a person who is cowardly or lacks courage; a craven person
Usage: archaic or literary; often used as a term of contempt or insult
Examples
- The knight called his rival a cravener for refusing to fight.
- In the old tale, the cravener fled the battlefield in shame.
- He was branded a cravener by his peers for his timid behavior.
- The general had no patience for craveners in his army.
- History remembers him not as a hero but as a cravener who abandoned his post.