faint-heartedness

Example Sentences

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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

Then several things recently have contributed to make me ashamed of faint-heartedness, and I really think I am going to develop some stronger fibre.

From The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains by Mullins, Isla May

Scudamour's faint-heartedness was the cause of their grief and disappointment.

From Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene by Spencer, Edmund

Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

"Juanito," she said, "have pity on my faint-heartedness; begin with me."

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various