Dictionary entry

Craven (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cra″ven, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cravened (–v'nd); p. pr. & vb. n.Cravening.] To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.

There is a prohibition so divine,

That cravens my weak hand.

Shak.