单词 | faintful |
释义 | † faintfuladj. Obsolete. Ready to faint; causing or indicating faintness. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective] > fainting or in a swoon > about to faint faintc1320 fainty1530 faintful1589 swooning-ripe1652 faintish1834 1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iii. 18 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Faintfull and like to die. a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Diiiv Let them flow alongst my faintfull lookes. 1594 T. Lodge Wounds Ciuill War v, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VII. 195 I feel the faintful dews of death. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1589 |
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