faint-heartedness

English

Etymology

faint-hearted + -ness

Noun

faint-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of faintheartedness
    • 2014, Ute Frevert, ‎Pascal Eitler, ‎Stephanie Olsen, Uffa Jensen, Margrit Pernau, Daniel Brűckenhaus, Magdalena Beljan, Benno Gammerl, & Anja Laukőtter, Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and the History of Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970, →ISBN, page 177:
      Unlike the Cowardly Lion, his American counterpart from thirty years earlier, he not only suffers from faint-heartedness, but from behaving accordingly.
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