Meanings
comparative more faintified · superlative most faintified
- archaicslangMade to feel faint.
I was a bit startled when they brought him up and put the rope round his neck and the cap on, and then they brought her out. All said he was hung innocently; it was she that should have been hung by herself. They both dropped together, and I felt faintified, but I soon felt all right again.
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861
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