the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > quality of spiritlessness > spiritless person or people (4)
One who is weak in character or intellect.
transferred and figurative. A spiritless person. Obsolete.
timid, cowardly; also absol.
colloquial. derogatory. An effeminate or homosexual man; (more generally) a silly, ineffectual, or fussy person; a sissy. Cf. Nervous Nellie n. at ne…