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afaint

adj

Etymology

From a- + faint.

  1. derived from *dʰeyǵʰ-✻
  2. derived from fingo
  3. derived from faint
  4. inherited from faynt
  5. prefixed as afaint — “a + faint”

Definitions

  1. fainting

    • 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 […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for afaint. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA