2 uses
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Definition
to show submission or fear — sometimes by crawling or lying face down
- And the youngest was a groveler, a scrounger under the pews—I couldn't even remember what its sex was.p. 562.3
- My grandmother believed that mining and quarrying, of all kinds, was groveling work—and that quarriers and miners were more closely related to moles than to men.p. 22.1
There are no more uses of "grovel" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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