faint-heartedness

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But the possibility is floated that it's over for serious novels of any sort other than those that salve our faint-heartedness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012

No power on earth except faint-heartedness on your own part, can defeat you....

From The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein by Lector

Jim Freeman and his friends seemed to be of the same mind as Jerry, and I said nothing to them lest I be accused of faint-heartedness, when everything was apparently going our way.

From Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington by Otis, James

Is it after listening to what we have heard this evening that we have cause for any faint-heartedness about the spirit of our soldiery?

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

But I did not want to, for I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund