For first, whereas you call the kind of temptation the daughter of pusillanimity and thereby so near of kin to the night's fear, methinketh on the other hand that it is rather a thing that cometh of a great courage and boldness.
St. Austine well declareth in his work De civitate Dei that there was no strength nor magnanimity in his destruction of himself, but plain pusillanimity and impotency of stomach.
This fault of pusillanimity and timorous mind hindereth a man also many times from doing many good things which, if he took a good stomach to him in the trust of God's help, he would be well able to do.
This fault of pusillanimity maketh a man in his tribulation first, for feeble heart, impatient.
The same confidence in quacks, which destroyed the grandson, hastened the dissolution of the grandfather, and to this he added the pusillanimity of wishing to dissimulate the infirmities of age.
The Elector's struggle with himself was long and violent, but pusillanimity and self-interest for awhile prevailed.
Superior to that pusillanimity which made far more powerful princes bow before Ferdinand's might, the Landgrave William was the first to join the hero of Sweden, and to set an example to the princes of Germany which all had hesitated to begin.
Prague was not irretrievably lost when Frederick's pusillanimity abandoned it.
The citizens, formerly so insolent, were seized with terror at the approach of the Bavarian army; pusillanimity now possessed them, though once so full of defiance, and they laid down their arms without striking a blow.
We cannot wonder at the burning words of condemnation which this pusillanimity called forth from the pen of brave Pierre Toussain.
The Revolution in Paris, it is well known, owed its success entirely to the pusillanimity of the men of the royal family.
But women often, in the last extremity, exhibit a courage which puts to shame the pusillanimity of the men by whom they are surrounded; and never was this more signally evinced than in the present instance.
The circus resounded with their indignant clamors, and they tumultuously besieged the gates of the palace, reproaching the pusillanimity of their indolent sovereign, and celebrating the heroic spirit of Constantine.
The patience of fortitude and the endurance of pusillanimity are things very different, as in their principle, so in their effects.
Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.
Blinded by self-love, have we not sheltered our dastardly pusillanimity under the cloak of pretended necessity, or even virtue?
But what name can we find for the pusillanimity of those who are not able so much as to look humiliations, poverty, or affliction in the face?
How base our pusillanimity and cowardice in the pursuit of virtue!
Pusillanimity is not to be confused, therefore, with humility; for humility excludes the unreasonable or immoderate desire of excellence, whereas pusillanimity represses even that desire of greatness which is reasonable and moderate.
Pusillanimity is per se a venial sin (see 2450), but it may become mortal on account of its matter or consequences, as when one is so self-depreciative as to neglect grave obligations of correcting abuses.
The sin opposed to greatness of soul by defect is pusillanimity (littleness of soul), which does not desire great things when one should desire them.
The pusillanimity of the Greeks had introduced so complete a separation between the offices of king and of general, that a private soldier, who had deserved and obtained the purple, seldom or never appeared at the head of his armies.
This pusillanimity quickly gave way to resolutions and reflections better suited to the exigencies of the time.
My pusillanimity still clung to this wretched existence.
The victims of his implacable caution could scarcely have endured agonies greater than those which his pusillanimity inflicted on himself.
He behaved with a pusillanimity and disingenuousness which deprived him of all claim to respect or pity.
But the absurd charge of his pusillanimity and his pedantry has been carried so far, as to suppose that it affected his character as a sovereign.
Peace, for which they are more indebted to the weakness and pusillanimityof their enemies than to their own strength, had left the king, and one or two of his ministers, leisure to embark in commercial speculations.
The victories of the Greeks and Macedonians over the Persians were materially aided by the pusillanimity of Xerxes and Darius.
The Senate did on that occasion come to a decision; against which act of pusillanimity Cicero on the following day expressed himself very vehemently.
His detestation of the mass thrived upon this reiterated accentuation of the wretched pusillanimity of the plebeians, which went hand-in-hand with a rebellious hatred for their benefactors.
With the like baseness and pusillanimity he now turned against Essex.
The duchess appeared calm and cheerful, as if determined not to doubt of a triumphant result, and manifestly resolved to wipe from the Bourbon name the charge of pusillanimity which it has so often incurred.
The Duke of Orleans was annoyed and irritated by the pusillanimity displayed by the king, and by the mortifying reserve with which he himself was treated.
When he received any bad news, he would cast aside forever the dress he was wearing when the news came; and of death he had a dread which was carried to the extent of pusillanimity and ridiculousness.
I can find none, unless it be your own weakness and the pusillanimity which causes fear in your minds.
It fell almost without a struggle, from the pusillanimity of the Emperor, in Vienna.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pusillanimity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
