Definition of "weak-spirited" [weak-spirited]

• Having a weak or timorous spirit; pusillanimous.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "This poetry doesn't really seek to explicate misery; it's too weak-spirited for that."
• "The King said to Sabila, “You see Isaaco appears to be a courageous man; if he had been of a weak-spirited mind, he would have run away, and left his things in my hands.”"
• "The Abbess, timid, narrowminded, and discontented, clung to ancient usages and pretensions which were ended by the Reformation; and was in adversity, as she had been in prosperity, scrupulous, weak-spirited, and bigoted."