noun
- Plural of hilding; cowardly or contemptible persons; base or dishonorable men.
Usage: archaic; literary; often used as a term of contempt or insult
Examples
- The king dismissed the hildings who had fled the battlefield in shame.
- Those hildings lacked the courage to stand and fight.
- He called them hildings for their treacherous behavior.
- The play portrayed the antagonists as hildings unworthy of respect.
- Such hildings would never be trusted with matters of honor.