FAINTNESS

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

2.
n.

Want of vigor or energy. Spenser.

3.
n.

Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.

4.
n.

Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection. I will send a faintness into their hearts. Lev. xxvi. 36.


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