faint·heart·ed

[feynt-hahr-tid]
adjective
lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English feynt hertyd. See faint, hearted

faint·heart·ed·ly, adverb
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fainthearted

adjective
lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady" [syn: faint
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Fainthearted is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
But, once again, these technical details are not for the fainthearted.
Clearly these sketching trips were not for the fainthearted.
The path to the mountain gorillas is not for the fainthearted.
The legislation was not for the politically fainthearted.
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