faint-heartedness
See also: faintheartedness
English
Etymology
faint-hearted + -ness
Noun
faint-heartedness (uncountable)
- Alternative form of faintheartedness
- 2014, Ute Frevert, Pascal Eitler, Stephanie Olsen, Uffa Jensen, Margrit Pernau, Daniel Brűckenhaus, Magdalena Beljan, Benno Gammerl, & Anja Laukőtter, Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and the History of Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970, →ISBN, page 177:
- 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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