"faint-heart" meaning in English

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      "form": "faint-hearts",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 48:",
          "text": "Beowulf had scarcely died before the faint-hearts came crawling out of their burrows.",
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          "ref": "2014, Roger Moorhouse, The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941, The Bodley Head:",
          "text": "We are going to need all forces in the conditions that we have to face, and in the fight that we have before us we want no half-hearted supporters, no vacillators, no faint-hearts.",
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        "A cowardly, faint-hearted person; one who is irresolute or fearful."
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          "cowardly"
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          "faint-hearted",
          "faint-hearted"
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        [
          "irresolute",
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        [
          "fearful",
          "fearful"
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  "word": "faint-heart"
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          "text": "Beowulf had scarcely died before the faint-hearts came crawling out of their burrows.",
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        "A cowardly, faint-hearted person; one who is irresolute or fearful."
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