faint-heartedness

Whether this was achieved by good luck or good management or faint-heartedness is moot and likely to remain so.

When Kennedy Blinked Charles McCarry 2011

Some of the words seemed particularly resonant for me at that time: “Take and offer on the Cross our labours, weariness and low spirits and struggles and faint-heartedness . . .”

The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

Ironically, libertarian and liberal originalists have been among the most dismissive of Justice Scalia's faint-heartedness.

Howe on Slavery as Punishment and the Original Public Meaning of the 13th Amendment Mary L. Dudziak 2009

The hero of Troneg spake: “I do it in the hope that if we have a coward on this journey, who through faint-heartedness would run away, that in this stream he may die a shameful death.”

The Nibelungenlied 2007

For if men hate the presumption of those who claim a reputation to which they have no right, they equally condemn the faint-heartedness of those who fall below the glory which is their own.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Do not accuse me of faint-heartedness; if I had gone

The Magic Skin 2007

But if the contrast between self-restraint and appetite is so great, no less startling is that between boldness and faint-heartedness.

Hellenica 2007

That you know; and you know too, that she purchased her glory and her greatness not by faint-heartedness, but by choosing to suffer pain and incur dangers in the day of need.

Hellenica 2007

Regretting now his faint-heartedness in not letting her know beforehand by some means that he was about to make a new start in the world, and coming to dwell near her, Christopher rang the bell to make inquiries.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

Art-world; and tempted by ambition, or barred by faint-heartedness, or driven by necessity, to turn away thence to the vulgar life-track, and the light of common day.

The Newcomes 2006