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Answer for the clue "Abject pusillanimity ", 11 letters:
poltroonery

Word definitions for poltroonery in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poltroonery \Pol*troon"er*y\, n. [F. poltronnerie; cf. It. poltroneria.] Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. abject pusillanimity

Usage examples of poltroonery.

In fact Guiliano was so amused that the two of them ate dinner together and talked long of the miseries of Sicily and the poltrooneries of Rome.

Winder, whose poltroonery at Bladensburg, in 1814, nullified the resistance of the gallant Commodore Barney, and gave Washington to the British.