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Another word for pusillanimity

noun

Ignoble lack of courage:

chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, funk, unmanliness. (Slang) gutlessness, yellowness, yellow streak. See fear

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The campaign which followed was a triumph for Selim, whose firmness and courage overcame the pusillanimity and insubordination of the Janissaries.
Add to this that he was a virtuous husband, a kind father, a fervent Christian and a good-natured man full of excellent intentions, yet a spectacle of moral pusillanimity and ineptitude.

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