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

Weakness, on the contrary, is faint-heartedness, timidity, lack of courage.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin

But I did not want to, for I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund

I often stopped on the way with weariness and faint-heartedness, but did not again turn back, and by two o'clock in the afternoon I reached my own cottage.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

A new, jerky little melody accompanies the remarks of Punchinello, and it would be very gay were it not written in the minor, which gives it a touching effect of faint-heartedness.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel