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Subject: pusillanimous: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Nov. 5, 2014

pusillanimous \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs\ adjective 1. lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid. 2. proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit. Quotes …in the intervals of their debauches of brutality they are oily and ingratiating, make favorites, offer pusillanimous apologies, protest humane intentions, and allege absurd excuses for past outages. -- Julian Hawthorne, The Subterranean Brotherhood, 1914 Origin Pusillanimous is derived from the Latin words pusillis meaning "small" and animus meaning "spirit." It entered English in the late 1500s.

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