faint-heartedness

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faint-heart·ed

(fānt′här′tĭd)

adj.

Deficient in conviction or courage; timid.

faint′-heart′ed·ly adv.

faint′-heart′ed·ness n.

faint-heartedness

faintheartedness

lack of courage

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faint-heartedness

noun

Ignoble lack of courage:

chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, funk, pusillanimity, unmanliness.

Slang: gutlessness, yellowness, yellow streak.

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faint-heartedness

n → Zaghaftigkeit f

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A characteristic sound, however,--neither a cough nor a hem, but a kind of rumbling and reverberating spasm in somebody's capacious depth of chest; --impelled her to hurry forward, with that aspect of fierce faint-heartedness so common to women in cases of perilous emergency.

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But they are nothing compared to our lack of confidence and faint-heartedness in reference to our progeny.

Can the baby bury the dead person?

To hang on to our title, we have to come to grounds such as Sardis Road and show no fear or faint-heartedness.