Faint-heartedness

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of faintheartedness. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "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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"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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