pigeon-livered

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Then he wondered if he had not grown spiritless and pigeon-livered in his solitude and loneliness.

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  1. Mild in temper; pigeon-hearted; soft; gentle. I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 605.

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