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Faintness   /fˈeɪntnəs/   Listen
noun
Faintness  n.  
1.
The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
2.
Want of vigor or energy.
3.
Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
4.
Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection. "I will send a faintness into their hearts."





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"Faintness" Quotes from Famous Books



... "but here is the story. Julian Orden left his rooms at a quarter to six on Thursday evening. He walked down to St. James's Street and turned into the Park. Just as he passed the side door of Marlborough House he was attacked by a sudden faintness." ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... had never seen a man done to death in cold blood. Yet I fought off the sickening faintness that clutched at my heart; and at last the dangling thing hung limp and relaxed, turning slowly round and round ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... of turning to show them the exact spot, indicating it vaguely by the direction of her hand, and still going on her way with the idea of gaining more assistance. When she deemed, in her faintness, that she had carried the alarm far enough, she faced about and dragged herself back again. Before reaching the now dreaded spot she met one ...
— Victorian Short Stories, - Stories Of Successful Marriages • Elizabeth Gaskell, et al.
... the women. I wish you'd let me know the next time you make off. I've lost half my pleasure in looking at as fine a lot of cattle as I ever saw, with thinking you might be having one of your old attacks of faintness.' ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... well. Hordle told me. That was why I went to the library. He hoped, if he waited and rested for a little while, the uncomfortable sensations might subside and it would be needless to mention them. He did not want any fuss made. We gave him restoratives, and he recovered from the faintness. But he won't be equal, he admits, to coming in to dinner. Colonel Carteret must be hungry—your father begs us to wait no longer, I assured him we would not. Hordle is with him. He should not be alone, I think, ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet


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