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

Scudamour's faint-heartedness was the cause of their grief and disappointment.

From Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene by Spencer, Edmund

Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

The king was assailed with petitions, and the spiritual courts went so far in faint-heartedness as to put the acceptance and non-acceptance of its ordinances to the vote of the congregations.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Is it after listening to what we have heard this evening that we have cause for any faint-heartedness about the spirit of our soldiery?

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James