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Definition of Pusillanimously
1. Adverb. With a lack of courage and determination. "Simperingly, the accused begged for mercy"
Definition of Pusillanimously
1. adv. With pusillanimity.
Definition of Pusillanimously
1. Adverb. In a pusillanimous manner ¹
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Definition of Pusillanimously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pusillanimously
Literary usage of Pusillanimously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"William Tell, struggling against Tyranny and Oppression: while the English
Ministry, it was said, pusillanimously looked on, ..."
2. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"... was carried on more boldly by him or more pusillanimously by the enemy.
Such was the manner in which Attains had slipped out of his hands from Opus ..."
3. Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester, Massachusetts, During the by Emory Washburn (1860)
"... should we tamely and pusillanimously suffer the execution of them. It would
be despising the bounties of our Creator, an infamous prostitution of ..."
4. Bibliotheca Classica; Or, A Classical Dictionary: Containing a Copious by John Lemprière (1811)
"Pe- I >|ji'!;>~ pusillanimously sank under the charge, iirr Epaminondas displayed
so much firmness and patient resignation to his fate, that he inlist- ed ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Conde acted pusillanimously, also, in not declaring himself, and taking his place
in the parliament, to which his secret promises of support could not ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"Conde acted pusillanimously, also, in not declaring himself, and taking his place
in the parliament, to which his secret promises of support could not ..."
7. The History of France by Eyre Evans Crowe (1869)
"... yielded pusillanimously, when affairs began to assume the appearance of an
open rupture. Conde acted pusillanimously also, in not declaring himself, ..."
8. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1873)
"... that he (I must think pusillanimously, when I compare his conduct with her
forbearance,) has been continually pouring out his miseries to his wife. ..."
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