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▪ I. fainting, vbl. n.|ˈfeɪntɪŋ|
[f. faint v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. faint.
1. A growing feeble or faint-hearted; depression, discouragement.
c1400Destr. Troy 13936 With fainttyng & feblenes he fell to þe ground. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. i. 46 Almost at fainting vnder The pleasing punishment that women beare. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Love Unknown 2 In my faintings I presume your love Will more complie, then help.
2. Swooning.
1601Holland Pliny xix. v. 18 This root..[elecampane] thus confected is singular good for faintings. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1879) 176 Fetch something, and give it Mercy..to stay her fainting. 1748Hartley Observ. Man. i. i. 40 Hence Faintings and Stupors. 1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxix. 344, I meant to stop your fainting.
b. attrib. in fainting fit, a swoon.
1702J. Purcell Cholick (1714) 97 Fainting Fits, or a Syncope..will ensue. 1828Scott F.M. Perth ii, Catharine..was..recovered from her fainting fit. 1855Stanley Mem. Canterb. iii. (1857) 128 Often he fell into long fainting fits, which his attendants mistook for death.
▪ II. fainting, ppl. a.|ˈfeɪntɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That faints, in senses of the verb.
1558T. Phaer æneid vi. 361 The feble mone doth giue sometime a faynting light. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 76 The Senate, whom I perceived in manner fainting and wearie. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. v. 40 That I may kindly giue one fainting kisse. 1708Edm. Smith To Mem. of J. Philips in Anderson B.P. VI. 618 The fainting Dutch remotely fire. 1771E. Griffith tr. Viaud's Shipwreck 201 Yes, O Yes! she replied in an almost fainting tone. 1771Hull Sir W. Harrington (1797) IV. 162 We had such trembling and almost fainting doings. 1818Shelley Lett. 10 July, Translating into my fainting and inefficient periods, the divine eloquence of Plato's Symposium. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 239 His eloquence roused the fainting courage of his brethren. |