Definition of Grovelled

1. Verb. (British) (simple past of grovel) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grovelled

1. grovel [v] - See also: grovel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grovelled

groutings
groutite
groutlike
grouts
grouty
grove
grove snail
groved
grovel
groveled
groveler
grovelers
groveless
groveling
grovelingly
grovelled (current term)
groveller
grovellers
grovelling
grovels
groves
grovet
grovets
grovy
grow
grow-op
grow-ops
grow a pair
grow cold
grow house

Literary usage of Grovelled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1903)
"Naturally neither Caesar nor Shrewsbury would care to have in black and white the fact that Coke grovelled before the king, but Boswell might be expected to ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1895)
"In the second, the figure which grovelled and that which sprang from its shoulders were ... In the third the figures marched level, that which had grovelled ..."

3. Haiti, Her History and Her Detractors by Jacques Nicolas Léger (1907)
"He grovelled on the floor, pounded "his head on the timbers and worked up to a point of "delirious frenzy, ... "Men and women groaned aloud, grovelled in ..."

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