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A lack of courage or resolve judged contemptible by the speaker.
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- political pusillanimity
- accusation of pusillanimity
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The speech condemned the council’s pusillanimity.
She rejected the accusation of pusillanimity.
The critic confused prudence with pusillanimity.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: pusillanimity is normally a mass noun unless a particular instance is specified. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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