faint-heart

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Noun

faint-heart (plural faint-hearts)

  1. A cowardly, faint-hearted person; one who is irresolute or fearful.
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 48:
      Beowulf had scarcely died before the faint-hearts came crawling out of their burrows.
    • 2014, Roger Moorhouse, The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941‎[1], The Bodley Head:
      We are going to need all forces in the conditions that we have to face, and in the fight that we have before us we want no half-hearted supporters, no vacillators, no faint-hearts.
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