Definition of Faintings

1. Noun. (plural of fainting) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Faintings

1. fainting [n] - See also: fainting

Lexicographical Neighbors of Faintings

faint-hearted
faint of heart
fainted
fainter
fainters
faintest
fainteth
fainthearted
faintheartedly
faintheartedness
faintheartednesses
faintier
faintiest
fainting
faintingly
faintings
faintish
faintishness
faintishnesses
faintly
faintness
faintnesses
faints
fainty
fair(a)
fair-and-square
fair-built
fair-haired
fair-haired(a)

Literary usage of Faintings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edwards on Revivals: Containing A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work by Jonathan Edwards (1832)
"Ministers blamed for making much of outcries, faintings, and bodily effects. ANOTHER thing wherein I think some ministers have been injured, ..."

2. A Synopsis of the Various Kinds of Difficult Parturition: With Practical by Samuel Merriman (1820)
"HYSTERIA A PARTU DIFFICILI. Sauvages. IN women of a delicate frame, of a nervous, irritable, hysterical habit, faintings during labour sometimes take place. ..."

3. The complete herbalist; or, The people their own physicians by the use of by Oliver Phelps Brown (1867)
"It mny be kept in a syrup or conserve, and will be found useful in trembling of the heart, and faintings and ..."

4. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing (1834)
"... pleasure in his love; and if so great ingratitude and neglect of sovereign goodness were punished with such strangeness, and fears, and faintings, ..."

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