noun · countable / uncountable · rare

pusillanimity

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малодушие

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.

Meaning

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(countable, uncountable)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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More definitions

contemptible fearfulness

Examples

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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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Translations

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By meaning 1

being timid:

Origin

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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