poltroonery


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Related to poltroonery: cowardliness, cravenness
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abject pusillanimity

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I used to inspire nocturnal dastardy and diurnal poltroonery. [...] I was an aborting ragpicker, a pox-promoting procuress, a lynch-promoting janitress (Queneau 2003: 308).
LES VOIES DE LA REPETITION DE HOVE, LA VOIX DE LA TRADUCTION DE RICHARD
It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes?
Poet and lunatic
The great imams of Islam, however, are not so foolish as to regard such ecclesiastical poltroonery as representative of the Christianity they have been attempting to destroy these past 1,400 years.
Been here, done this: the current clash of civilizations may seem unprecedented, but Christianity is no worse off than it was a thousand years ago
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