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In the old law it was directed against one who "pusillanimously cries for quarter"; in the new, it is one who "is guilty of cowardly conduct."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not that I complain of all those inexplicable diseases, opprobria medicinæ, so pusillanimously submitted to by civilized humanity and its physicians,—chicken-pox, measles, whooping-cough, mumps.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

The Gironde, from about this time, pusillanimously conceded point by point to the anarchic demands made by their enemies and the king's.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)

But whether in adopting this measure we are madly active or weakly passive or pusillanimously panic-struck, the effects will be the same.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

They shall not say of the man who took compassion upon the deserted and threatened orphan and raised her for his own egotistical wishes, and pusillanimously failed to finish the work he began!

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel