cowardlinessn.
/ˈkaʊədlɪnɪs/ The quality of being cowardly; cowardice.
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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun]
arghtha1250
arghshipc1275
faintise1297
cowardicec1300
cowardshipc1330
arghness1340
arghhoodc1350
sheepnessc1380
pusillanimitya1393
cowardnessa1400
neshnessa1400
cowardyc1405
lithernessc1425
lashness1477
cowardrya1547
meagreness?1553
cowardliness1556
micropsychy1651
buzzardism1659
stanielry1659
manlessness1667
cow-heartedness1718
pusillanimousness1727
chicken-heartedness1808
infortitude1813
plucklessness1824
white-featherism1843
cold feet1893
yellow1893
liver-heartedness1897
yellowness1909
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 53v Leste..slouthfulnesse, or cowardlinesse, or somme such thing appeare.
1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. v. 27 It is a base cowardlinesse..to thinke of running away.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 524 The ill nature of the one side, and the cowardliness of the other.
1827 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 21 July The cowardliness and impolicy of the Nonconformists, at the Restoration.
1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind iv. 26 The cowardliness of the action.
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