Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a fainting state or on the point of fainting.
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Examples
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Lasalle, the son of a silk merchant in Breslau, was a singularcharacter, a labor leader who was at ease in the beau monde, a socialist orator who made love to aristocratic women, a charlatan whose egotism, inflamed by syphilis, bore at times afaint resemblance to genius.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Lasalle, the son of a silk merchant in Breslau, was a singularcharacter, a labor leader who was at ease in the beau monde, a socialist orator who made love to aristocratic women, a charlatan whose egotism, inflamed by syphilis, bore at times afaint resemblance to genius.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Lasalle, the son of a silk merchant in Breslau, was a singularcharacter, a labor leader who was at ease in the beau monde, a socialist orator who made love to aristocratic women, a charlatan whose egotism, inflamed by syphilis, bore at times afaint resemblance to genius.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Lasalle, the son of a silk merchant in Breslau, was a singularcharacter, a labor leader who was at ease in the beau monde, a socialist orator who made love to aristocratic women, a charlatan whose egotism, inflamed by syphilis, bore at times afaint resemblance to genius.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Lasalle, the son of a silk merchant in Breslau, was a singularcharacter, a labor leader who was at ease in the beau monde, a socialist orator who made love to aristocratic women, a charlatan whose egotism, inflamed by syphilis, bore at times afaint resemblance to genius.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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As she listened, she felt afaint frisson of recognition.
Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005
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It happened that in the midst of this outcry, the Regent fell back afaint, the moles black, the face white.
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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Allah had created women exquisite in loveliness and heart - ensnaring; and at first glance the shaft of love pierced his heart and he fell to the ground afaint He loved her with a thousand lives and, when his mother questioned him, "his lips formed no friendship with his speech."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Squaring her shoulders, Richina offered afaint smile, then cleared her throat "You may begin, chief player.
The Shadow Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 2001
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