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fainty, a. Obs. exc. poet. and dial.|ˈfeɪntɪ|
[f. faint a. + -y.]
1. Faint, sickly, languid. In later use chiefly: Inclined to swoon.
1530Tindale Pract. Prelates Wks. II. 257 Faith waxed feeble and fainty. 1586Cogan Haven Health lxix. (1636) 78 If a man use much Saffron, it will make him very fainty. 1648Gage West Ind. xvi. (1655) 109, I presently found my stomach fainty. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 431 The fainty Root can take no steady hold. 1700― Fables, Flower & Leaf 381 The fainty knights..knew not where To run for shelter. 1796Coleridge in Mrs. Sandford T. Poole & Friends (1888) I. 177 It..left me pale and fainty. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 295 All hands..their fainty frames have flung Upon the earth. 1884Holland Chester Gloss. s.v. Aitch, Fainty aitches are fainting fits.
2. Causing or productive of faintness; sickly.
1590T. Watson Eglogve Death Sir F. Walsingham 107 Who shall recure their faintie maladies? 1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 602 A faintie sultrie blowing. 1683Tryon Way to Health 86 They are apt to sweat much, whence proceeds a fainty Indisposition.
Hence † ˈfaintiness.
1683Tryon Way to Health 31 Green Corn or Grass..makes such Cattle..apt to faintyness and Diseases. Ibid. 593 Causing a general Faintiness to attend the whole Body. |