afaint

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adjective

fainting

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Meanings

adjectiveafaint (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparablepoeticfainting

    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

From a- + faint.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

antifa
Cite this entry
APA

afaint. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/afaint

MLA

“afaint.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/afaint. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “afaint,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/afaint.

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