poltroonery

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poltroonery

noun poltrooneries

countable, uncountable 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.

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@misc{poltroonery_2026,
  title = {poltroonery},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poltroonery},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}