Poltron

Be not a Hercules furens abroad, and a poltron within thyself.

She shall find I am not the clay, but the potter. I will mould, not be moulded. Poltron as I was, to think of sinking into the docile, domesticated, timid animal called husband!

We were regarded as a nation of poltrons, without the spirit to resent insult, or the power to resist aggression.