poltroonery

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I had made the wife see the husband's craven poltroonery, and the husband the wife's heart infidelity; and I let them live for their mutual distrust and punishment.

From By Right of Sword by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

As a result, a regiment of Light Cavalry was disbanded, "as a punishment for poltroonery in the hour of trial and the dastards struck off the Army List."

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace

As well might the continual defeats of the British in the first months of the present war in South Africa be held as a proof of British poltroonery.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

Without James's mingled poltroonery and tyranny to nurse and stimulate it, it is doubtful if Puritanism would have had its spasm of ascendency.

From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar

He had gone on his knees, held back from my feet by the Oneida; and his poltroonery so sickened me that I could scarce see what I wrote down in my carnet.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)