craven/graven eggcorn?

[Jeff Prucher]

--- Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I'm with you, Neil: "graven image"; "craven fool."
>
> -Wilson

I dunno.  There's something to be said for "Thou shalt not make unto thee any
craven images."

I'm not sure what, exactly, but something, surely.

Jeff Prucher

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> On 1/16/06, neil <neil at typog.co.uk> wrote:
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> > 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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