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Poltroonery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Cowardice; lack of spirit; pusillanimity. countable, uncountable

    "Genius, Poet: do we know what these words mean? […] Nature’s own sacred voice heard once more athwart the dreary boundless element of hearsaying and canting, of twaddle and poltroonery, in which the bewildered Earth, nigh perishing, has lost its way."

  2. 2
    abject pusillanimity wordnet

Etymology

From poltroon + -ery.

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