groveling
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (UK) grovelling
Verb edit
groveling
- (US) present participle and gerund of grovel
- 1697, John Dryden, Georgics, translation of original by Virgil, Book III, lines 13–14:
- New ways I must attempt, my groveling name
To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.
Noun edit
groveling (plural grovelings)
- The act of one who grovels.