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
The Germans loudly boasted of their triumph; but, to their amazement, there was no sign of war-weariness or faint-heartedness amongst the Allies.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by James Edward Parrott
"You need not taunt me with faint-heartedness," cried Hromund.
From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora Kershaw
No weakness, no faint-heartedness, no shrinking from toil, nor even peril.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
I often stopped on the way with weariness and faint-heartedness, but did not again turn back, and by two o'clock in the afternoon I reached my own cottage.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
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