Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FAINT'NESS
FAINT'NESS, n.
- The state of being faint; loss of strength, color and respiration.
- Feebleness; languor; want of strength. Hooker.
- Inactivity; want of vigor. Spenser.
- Feebleness, as of color or light.
- Feebleness of representation; as, faintness of description.
- Feebleness of mind; timorousness; dejection; irresolution. I will send a faintness into their hearts. Lev. xxvi.
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