How To Use Pusillanimity In A Sentence

• It is a sophisma pigrum, and (as Bacon hath said) the arrogance of pusillanimity, which lifts up the idol of a mortal's fancy and commands us to fall down and worship it, as a work of divine wisdom, an ancile or palladium fallen from heaven. Biographia Literaria
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• With this language many did begin to feel offended; it seemed to be morosity and ill-will, the pusillanimity of old age, or a fear, that had now become exaggerated, of the skill of Hannibal. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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• a total detachment from things below -- an entire renunciation of the most innocent pleasures; have given birth to a sluggishness, to a pusillanimity, to an abjection of soul, to an insociability, that renders him useless to himself, dangerous to others? The System of Nature, Volume 1
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• As to the man himself, there is a point at which virtue becomes vice, and vice versâ, and his pusillanimity in shrinking from the inconvenience and terrible disagreeableness of 'making a row' coincides with his good-nature. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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• She urged the conspirators to do their work, and chided in the strongest terms their irresolution and pusillanimity. Nero Makers of History Series
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