poltroonery

There was the acid of contempt in her voice at her brother's poltroonery.

From A World Apart by Sam Merwin

As well might the continual defeats of the British in the first months of the present war in South Africa be held as a proof of British poltroonery.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

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

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

It was some palliation of his supposed poltroonery that he had stayed all day at the hotel, and that his adversary had not sent the challenge till after he was gone.

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid

To poltroonery of one kind or another the Spirit makes no concessions; it wears the face of a hard master to all pusillanimous demands.

From Religious Perplexities by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks