Meanings of so faint-hearted in English

STRANGER: Shall we then be so faint-hearted as to give him up?

I do not believe that ethics need be so faint-hearted.

What has happened to make you so faint-hearted, dear?

Why, child, how can you be so faint-hearted?

I never knew a patient so faint-hearted.

A fellow who can take a five-barred gate as you can, ought not to be so faint-hearted.

Shall we be so faint-hearted as not to suffer for the name of Christ, who died for us?

Who, I say, that was so faint-hearted as I, that would not have knocked with all their might?

I wonder, dear, that you should have wished that, you who are so faint-hearted in the presence of life!

Ask Deborah if I care what I eat and drink; we shall do very well, if you and Esther are not so faint-hearted.

Charles answered, "Be not so faint-hearted; take the glove and baton, since the Franks have awarded it to thee, and go, do my bidding."

"I had no idea that you were so faint-hearted, my son," the merchant remarked.

"Have you grown so faint-hearted?"

"That such a man as you should be so faint-hearted," Trevelyan had said, "is a thing that I can not understand."

"Don't be so faint-hearted, Quinnox!" cried Lorry, stimulated by the desire to be with her, recognizing no obstacle that might thwart him in the effort.