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- noun Plural form of
poltroonery .
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Examples
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The tone is blue-collar hard, with its prejudices and poltrooneries.
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I dare say you are a little bored occasionally with "Jesus," &c., -- as I confess I myself am, when I discern what a beggarly Twaddle they have made of all that, what a greasy Cataplasm to lay to their own poltrooneries; -
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Abbe de La Riviere, who was charged to implore pardon for his master, was worthy of such a commission: he confessed everything, he signed everything, though he "all but died of terror," and, at the cardinal's demand, he soon brought all those poltrooneries written out in the Duke of Orleans 'own hand.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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Three-strong, Four-strong, Five-strong, and Last-man; "and the story gives a comic account of their poltrooneries.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878
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