2 uses
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Definition
to show submission or fear — sometimes by crawling or lying face down
- Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?Book 26 — Passage to India (96% in)
- You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!Book 6 — Salut au Monde! (92% in)
There are no more uses of "grovel" in Leaves of Grass.
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