faintness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FA'INTNESS, noun 1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, color and respiration. 2. Feebleness; languor; want of strength. 3. Inactivity; want of vigor. 4. Feebleness, as of color or light. 5. Feebleness of representation; as faintness of description. 6. Feebleness of mind; timorousness; dejection; irresolution. I will send a faintness into their hearts. Leviticus 26:36.
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