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‖ faineantise|fɛneɑ̃tiz| Also 7 faitneantise. [Fr. fainéantise, f. fainéant: see prec.] ‘Do-nothing-ness’; indisposition to do anything; indifference, inactivity.
a1684Leighton Let. in Leisure Hour Dec. (1874) 805 Nor would any fatigue..have degusted me so much as our ten years fai(n)tneantise has done. a1734North Exam. (1740) 99 If the King had, by any Faineantise or Remissness, let their Line run into Opportunities. 1822T. L. Peacock Maid Marian ix, He had..sent all King Henry's saints about their business, or rather about their no-business, their fainéantise. |