poltroonery

The only thing that at all tended to shake this conviction, was the extraordinary poltroonery of our new captive.

Do you not make use of my poltroonery to hinder me from entering our house?

Coconnas, an Italian, instead of inviting contempt for his poltroonery, inspires aversion for his crimes.

I am alarmed, amazed, scandalised at the transcendent poltroonery that possesses the human race.

In the light of later events, I now realize that their apparent poltroonery arose not from individual cowardice.