afaint
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afaint (not comparable)
- (archaic, poetic) fainting
- 1891, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Songs of the Silent World: And Other Poems, page 61:
- 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 […]