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pusillanimities

pusillanimities is the plural of pusillanimity.

Meaning of pusillanimity

Noun

pusillanimity (countable and uncountable, plural pusillanimities)

  1. The quality or state of being pusillanimous; the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to one's full potential; pusillanimousness.
    • The ſecond property of your excellent ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled) left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the invvards to the partes extreames, […]c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...

Questions about pusillanimities

What is pusillanimities the plural of?
Pusillanimities is the plural of pusillanimity.

Words near pusillanimities in the dictionary

  1. pushwall
  2. pushwalls
  3. pushy
  4. pusil
  5. pusilanimous
  6. pusillanimities
  7. pusillanimity
  8. pusillanimous
  9. pusillanimously
  10. pusillanimousness
  11. Puskar

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