craven/graven eggcorn?

[neil]

Not sure whether this is an eggcorn; I'd always assumed the term was
'craven':

'Perhaps there were people talking behind his back then, calling him a
graven fool, as he had once thought Fanny Hope, but now he had learned the
hard way.'

Sharyn McCrumb, 'The Resurrection Man', in Ed McBain [ed], 'Transgressions',
Orion, London, 2005, 368

--Neil Crawford

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