English

Noun

faint-heartedness ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative form of faintheartedness
   • 2014, Ute Frevert, ‎Pascal Eitler, ‎Stephanie Olsen, Uffa Jensen, Margrit Pernau, Daniel Brűckenhaus, Magdalena Beljan, Benno Gammerl, & Anja Laukőtter, Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and the History of Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970, ISBN 0199684995, page 177:

     Unlike the Cowardly Lion, his American counterpart from thirty years earlier, he not only suffers from faint-heartedness, but from behaving accordingly.