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Definition of Faintest
1. faint [adj] - See also: faint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faintest
Literary usage of Faintest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"... susurrus of the wood; now there is mingled with or added to it, to be detected
only by the sharpest ears, this first and faintest imaginable voice. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... conservation of energy holds in all vital processes with such rigid accuracy
that every faintest change in the motor or sensory nerve-cells of the brain ..."
3. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"... suffer torments of which he has not the faintest idea. When the wretched
secretary tries to escape, Falkland makes use of the chest incident, ..."
4. Seneca's Morals: By Way of Abstract. To which is Added a Discourse, Under by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1834)
"... a. brawling, clamorous evil: and the more noise the less courage ; as we find
it commonly, that the boldest tongues have the faintest hearts. CHAP. ..."
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