groveling

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) grovelling

Verb

groveling

1. (US) present participle 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

groveling (plural grovelings)

1. The act of one who grovels.