- Fearfulness - I’d race gingerly after cow, showing weakness - Lack of courage - Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity;
pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
- Dampen - Dishearten - Dishearten with record showing how old we are - To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to
depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the
opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he
need not be discouraged from a like attempt. - To dishearten one with respect to; to
discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as,
they discouraged his efforts. - Lack of courage; cowardliness.