Complete Definition of "pusillanimity"

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Noun
pusillanimity

  1. The quality or state of being pusillanimous; pusillanimousness.

1685. w:Miguel de Molinos|Dr. Michael de Molinos: The Spiritual Guide which Disentangles the Soul, and Brings it by the Inward Way To The Getting of Perfect Contemplation and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace, CHAP. XVIII: 1.
:132. And although thou often fallest, and seest thy Pusillanimity, and endeavour to get courage, and afflict not thy self; because what God doth not do in forty Years, he sometimes doth in an instant, with a particular Mystery, that we may live low and humble, and know that �tis the Work of his powerful Hand, to free us from Sins.

Related terms
pusillanimous
pusillanimousness
cowardice
cowardliness
cravenness
faint-heartedness

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