faulter

plural faulters

1. obsoleteOne who commits a fault.

   Behold the faulter here in sight.

   1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC

present singular third person faulters · participle present faultering · participle past faultered · past faultered

1. archaicArchaic spelling of falter.

   “You know all, then?”—“I know nothing,” said Melmoth faultering.

   1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 179

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   The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt About his large dark locks, and faultering spake: Arise, good youth, for sacred Phoebus’ sake!

   1818, John Keats, Endymion