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