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afaint

afaint adjective: fainting.

Adjective

afaint (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) 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 […]1891, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Songs of the Silent World: And Other Poems, page 61

Origin of afaint

From a- + faint.

Questions about afaint

What does afaint mean?
Afaint means fainting.
What part of speech is afaint?
Afaint is an adjective.

Words near afaint in the dictionary

  1. AFAICMO
  2. AFAICR
  3. AFAICS
  4. afaict
  5. afaik
  6. afaint
  7. AFAIR
  8. afairyist
  9. afairyists
  10. AFAIU
  11. AFAIUI

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