faint-heartedly
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See also: faintheartedly
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
faint-hearted + -ly
Adverb[edit]
faint-heartedly (comparative more faint-heartedly, superlative most faint-heartedly)
- Alternative form of faintheartedly
- 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric Dreamed a Dream”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 132:
- Then once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again.