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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | Copyright

pusillanimous XVI. f. late L. pūsillanimis, f. pūsillus very small, weak (f. pūsus boy, rel. to puer boy) + animus mind; see -OUS.

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