If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. Hence To have a tendency toward or take pleasure in low or base things be low, abject, or mean be morally depraved. It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage to accelerate and animate their industry and activity to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness,Ībhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, andĪn ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. To creep or crawl on the earth, or with the face and body bent to the ground lie prone, or move with the body prostrate on the earth especially, to lie prostrate in abject humility, fear, etc. created an unbridled incentive to pour billions of dollars into Iran without it being required to changes its policy of terror and belligerence, greed begets attempts to grovel before the Iranian regime, with attendant loss of basic sense and self-respect. What happened (in Zurich) proves that the nuclear deal. I wanted to travel more - I didn’t want to have to ask for time off and grovel for extra days, you know? What do we get if he does that ? Nothing. You don't give them what they want up front. If you're going to do it, the way to do it is make the Chinese come to us, let them grovel for a bit and then respond. Several thoughts may be natural which are low and groveling. His groveling sense will show my passion less. To be mean to be without dignity or elevation. Let us then conclude that all painters ought to require this part of excellence: not to do it, is to want courage, and not dare to shew themselves: ’tis to creep and grovel on the ground. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Inchas’d with all the honours of the world! What see’st thou there? king Henry’s diadem, He groveling fell, all gored in his gushing wound. : to lie or creep with the body prostrate in token of subservience or abasement. : to creep with the face to the ground : crawl. To lie prone to creep low on the ground.Īnd through his shoulder pierc’d wherewith to ground groveled or grovelled groveling or grovelling. It may perhaps come by gradual corruption from ground feel. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: grufde, Islandick, flat on the face.
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