afaint

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Etymology[edit]

a- +‎ faint

Adjective[edit]

afaint (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) fainting
    • 1891, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Songs of the Silent World: And Other Poems, page 61:
      When, kneeling as she was, her limbs / Refused to bear her, and she fell afaint / From weariness and striving to become / A holy woman, all her splendid length / Upon the ground []

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