Cowardice
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Middle English: from Old French couardise, from couard (see coward).
wiktionary
From Middle English cowardise, from Anglo-Norman cuardise (modern French couardise).
etymonline
cowardice (n.)
"want of courage to face danger, dread of harm or pain," c. 1300, from Old French coardise (13c.), from coard, coart "coward" (see coward) + noun suffix -ise.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. [Ernest Hemingway, "Men at War," 1942]
