poltroon vs poor-spirited

poltroon

adj

  • Cowardly. 

noun

  • An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch. 

poor-spirited

adj

  • cowardly 

  • mean; base 

How often have the words poltroon and poor-spirited occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )