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poltrooneries

poltrooneries is the plural of poltroonery.

Meaning of poltroonery

Noun

poltroonery (countable and uncountable, plural poltrooneries)

  1. Cowardice; lack 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.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IX, Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Questions about poltrooneries

What is poltrooneries the plural of?
Poltrooneries is the plural of poltroonery.

Words near poltrooneries in the dictionary

  1. poltophagy
  2. Poltorak
  3. poltron
  4. poltrons
  5. poltroon
  6. poltrooneries
  7. poltroonery
  8. poltroonish
  9. poltroonishly
  10. poltroonism
  11. poltroons

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