fainness

He felt courage in his heart and lustiness in his limbs and fainness in his thought.

The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

And Messire Gawain searcheth the ranks to find the knight, albeit when he meeteth knight in his way he cannot choose but do whatsoever a knight may do of arms, and yet more would he have done but for his fainness to seek out the knight.

The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

Sansculottism claps hands; -- at which hand-clapping, Foulon (in his fainness, as his Destiny would have it) also claps.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

"Now I take this very kind, Mr. Craig; for I could not have expected you, considering ye have got, as I am told, your jo in the house"; at which words the Doctor winked paukily to Mr. Daff, who rubbed his hands with fainness, and gave a good-humoured sort of keckling laugh.

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

He brought it me, and I made him great joy, but when he told me his name was Arthur I had no fainness of the bounty he had done me, for that he had the name of that evil King. "

The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869