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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



... the notes of glory and victory before his strength deserted him, and he would have dropped upon the ground if he had not been caught by Hapgood. He groaned heavily as he sank into the arms of his friend, and yielded to the faintness and exhaustion ...
— The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army - A Story of the Great Rebellion • Oliver Optic
... turned bewildered, heavy eyes upon the desolate mountains, stared dizzily about him, tried to rise. At first his muscles would not act; a numbing, aching pain possessed him. He uttered a long, thin cry for help, and heard its faintness swallowed by the wind. And then he understood vaguely why he was only warm—not dead. For this very wind that took his cry had built up a sheltering mound of driven snow against his body while he slept. Like ...
— Four Weird Tales • Algernon Blackwood
... tedious toilet, it was more than once apparent that she was battling against a sense of faintness; but even this discomfort did not induce her to allow a single pin to be less conscientiously placed, a single curl less carefully smoothed. Adolphine did not dare to betray that she perceived the failure of her mistress' strength, and had ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... where his wounds were dressed by the Spanish surgeons, but Don Alonso would neither see nor speak to him. All the other captains went to visit and comfort him in his hard fortune, wondering at his courage and constancy, as he shewed no signs of faintness, not even changing colour: But, feeling his death approaching, he spoke in Spanish to the following purport: "Here die I Richard Grenville, with a joyous and quiet mind, having ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, fighting for my country, my queen, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... chair. A sudden faintness passed over her—as if she had received a blow in the chest, stopping ...
— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith


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