What does "faintness" mean?
Faintness: Want of vigor or energy. Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
- 3.Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection. I will send a faintness into their hearts. Lev. xxvi. 36.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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