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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



... long in his damp trance young Juan lay[147] He knew not, for the earth was gone for him, And Time had nothing more of night nor day For his congealing blood, and senses dim; And how this heavy faintness passed away He knew not, till each painful pulse and limb, And tingling vein, seemed throbbing back to life, For Death, though vanquished, still ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... down over her ear. The rouge upon her cheeks had run down on to her neck. She sat there, looking at him out of her hollow eyes like some trapped animal. She was shaking with fear. It was fear, not faintness, ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... as to a rock, for of a truth I had never felt a grasp so steady and withal so gentle and kindly, as was his around my shoulders. I tried to murmur words of thanks, but again that wretched feeling of sickness and faintness overcame me, and for a second or two it seemed to me as if I were slipping into another world. The stranger's voice came to my ear, as it were ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... as he spoke; it might be simple disgust; it might be fear; it might be what we call antipathy, which is different from either, and which will sometimes show itself in paleness, and even faintness, produced by objects perfectly harmless and not in ...
— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... wound brought on a sudden faintness, and he fell heavily upon Big Abel's arm. With the pain a groan hovered an instant on his lips, but, closing his eyes, he bit it back and lay silent. For the first time in his life there had ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow


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