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pusillanimity

pusillanimity · pusillanimities

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The quality or state of being pusillanimousThe quality or state of being pusillanimous; the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to one's full potential; pusillanimousness.

/pjuːsɪləˈnɪmɪti/

» The idea of his concealment, not only agrees very ill with his reputed divinity, but associates with it something of pusillanimity.

Значення

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(злічуване, незлічуване)The quality or state of being pusillanimous; the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to one's full potential; pusillanimousness.
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Ще визначення

contemptible fearfulness

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The idea of his concealment, not only agrees very ill with his reputed divinity, but associates with it something of pusillanimity.
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Русский

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being timid:

Походження

From pusillanim(ous) + -ity, from Middle French pusillanimité, from the ecclesiastical Lat

From pusillanim(ous) + -ity, from Middle French pusillanimité, from the ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis, from pusillus (puny) + animus (spirit) + -ous. A translation of the Greek ὀλιγόψυχος (oligópsukhos, “faint-hearted”).

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