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Definition of Pusillanimities
1. pusillanimity [n] - See also: pusillanimity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pusillanimities
Literary usage of Pusillanimities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and superfine airs of these Girondin " men of statesmanship," with their
pedantries, plausibilities, pusillanimities: " these two years," says he, ..."
2. The Letters of William James by William James (1920)
"It is medicinal in a way which it would probably both surprise and please you to
know, and helps to make me ashamed of those pusillanimities and ..."
3. Portraits of the Eighteenth Century: Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1905)
"The man who watched, and wrote down upon the spot, the pusillanimities of the
king during his last illness was M. de Liancourt, Grand-Master of the Wardrobe ..."
4. Portraits of the Eighteenth Century: Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1905)
"The man who watched, and wrote down upon the spot, the pusillanimities of the
king during his last illness was M. de Liancourt, Grand-Master of the Wardrobe ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1891)
"And after all, the abominations of New York's politics are only a few degrees
more repellent than the cruelties and pusillanimities of her self-styled ..."
6. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1882)
"And so the poorer nature which is in us is ever disarming and distorting and
adapting to its own limited conceptions and pusillanimities the higher and ..."
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