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Pusillanimity - What does it mean?

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pusillanimity

English

Noun

  • 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.
  • * 1685 . : The Spiritual Guide which Disentangles the Soul, and Brings it by the Inward Way To The Getting of Perfect Contemplation and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace , CHAP. XVIII: [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/molinos/guide.html].
    • 132. And although thou often fallest, and seest thy Pusillanimity , and endeavour to get courage, and afflict not thy self; because what God doth not do in forty Years, he sometimes doth in an instant, with a particular Mystery, that we may live low and humble, and know that ‘tis the Work of his powerful Hand, to free us from Sins.
  • * 1872 , , "Guest's Confession" in The Atlantic Monthly October 1872.
    • What I did through indolence and in some degree, I confess, through pusillanimity , I had a fancy to make it appear (by dint of much whistling, as it were, and easy thrusting of my hands into my pocket) that I did through a sort of generous condescension.

    Related terms

    * pusillanimous * pusillanimousness * cowardice * cowardliness * cravenness * faint-heartedness

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