poltroonery

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Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity

Genius, Poet: do we know what these words mean? Nature’s own sacred voice heard once more athwart the dreary boundless element of hearsaying and canting, of twaddle and poltroonery, in which the bewildered Earth, nigh perishing, has lost its way.

{n} cowardiiness, meanness, baseness
abject pusillanimity
poltroonery
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