= arghness, n.

= arghness, n.

Feebleness, weakness (of body or mind); want of energy, cowardice. Cf. faintness, n. without faintise: without flagging or flinching.

The quality of a coward; cowardliness; want of courage to face danger; faint-heartedness, pusillanimity. See also moral cowardice n. at moral, adj.…

The action or behaviour of a coward; cowardice.

Cowardice, pusillanimity, timidity.

Cowardice, pusillanimity.

Pusillanimity.

The quality or character of being pusillanimous; lack of courage or fortitude; cowardice, faint-heartedness; an instance of this.

= cowardliness, n., cowardice, n.

Softness; weakness, feebleness; squeamishness; †lack of courage, faint-heartedness (obsolete). In Old English also concrete: †a soft part (obsolete).

= cowardice, n.

Laziness, sloth, listlessness, indifference; want of spirit, cowardice. Also in physical sense, laxity.

Slackness (of body or mind); remissness; also, cowardice.

= cowardice, n.

Lack of courage. Obsolete. rare.

The quality of being cowardly; cowardice.

Pusillanimity, timidity, faint-heartedness.

Conduct resembling that of the buzzard; cowardice.

staniel-like cowardice.

Cowardice. Obsolete. rare.

= pusillanimity, n.

cowardice, faint-heartedness.

Lack of fortitude; weakness.

lack of courage or spirit.

cowardice.

(a) in colloquial (originally U.S.) phrase to get (or have) cold feet, to become cowardly or discouraged; hence = fear, ‘funk’, cowardice; (b) Horticu…

colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Cowardice. Cf. sense A. 3b.

cowardice.

U.S. colloquial. Cowardice. Cf. yellow, adj. 3b.