faint-heartedness
Example Sentences
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But the possibility is floated that it's over for serious novels of any sort other than those that salve our faint-heartedness.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012
Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Scudamour's faint-heartedness was the cause of their grief and disappointment.
From Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene by Spencer, Edmund
Rudolf regarded her fixedly, and his ideas concerning this woman were peculiar: he took this pallor for faint-heartedness, this veiled regard for coquetry, and he believed it would be no difficult matter to win her.
From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
If it had, it was plain that they relied on his faint-heartedness, and his inability to bear the pangs of hunger, even within limits.
From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John
