"poltron" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 35:",
          "text": "Be not a Hercules furens abroad, and a poltron within thyself.",
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          "ref": "1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, London: Shepperson & Reynolds, Volume 4, Letter 71, p. 127:",
          "text": "She shall find I am not the clay, but the potter. I will mould, not be moulded. Poltron as I was, to think of sinking into the docile, domesticated, timid animal called husband!",
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          "ref": "1823, Edward Dillingham Bangs, An oration pronounced at Springfield, Mass., on the Fourth of July, 1823:",
          "text": "We were regarded as a nation of poltrons, without the spirit to resent insult, or the power to resist aggression.",
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        "Alternative form of poltroon"
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        "(obsolete) Alternative form of poltroon"
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  "word": "poltron"
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          "ref": "1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 35:",
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          "text": "She shall find I am not the clay, but the potter. I will mould, not be moulded. Poltron as I was, to think of sinking into the docile, domesticated, timid animal called husband!",
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        "(obsolete) Alternative form of poltroon"
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