Both Uses of
grovel
in
Leaves of Grass
- You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip,
groveling, seeking your food!†Chpt 6groveling = showing submission or fear
- Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?†
Chpt 26 *grovel'd = showed submission or feareditor's notes: Today we would write groveled.
Definition:
to show submission or fear -- sometimes by crawling or lying face down