faint
adjective
lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc..
faintingly
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a word derived from
faint.
Example Sentences
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Hearing, but answering not from out the past, Wrapp'd in thy robe of everlasting light, Round which the accents flutter faintingly, Like larks slow panting upward to the sun?
From Poems by Walter Richard Cassels
"And this—this!—is your study of horticulture!" she had half faintingly wailed.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Enter Brude and Lamora faintingly to a spot where Horma, the hag, unseen by them is gathering herbs.
From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice
Her strength deserted her; and while Benedetto was being led out by a jailer, she leaned faintingly against a chair.
From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Jules Lermina
