Lexicographical Neighbors of Fauting
Literary usage of Fauting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan (1838)
"... Grania—I've often had it in my mind to spake to you, but the children was by,
and it wasn't fit they should hear the father fauting the mother. ..."
2. Scottish alliterative poems in riming stanzas by Richard Holland, Huchown (1897)
"fauting, s. failing, G. 1222. O.Fr. fouler, to fail, to lack. Fauour, s. favour,
kindliness, goodwill, G. 357, 1047, 1187; R. 899; ..."
3. A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Explanatory of the History, Manners by Richard Watson, Nathan Bangs (1832)
"... 4 ; for which purpose tli six large water pots mentioned by St. John H, 6,
were destined : their fauting twice week with great appearance of austerity, ..."
4. The new calendar of great men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages by Frederic Harrison (1892)
"His austere asceticism outdid that of the cloister : his fauting, his continence,
his penances, his devotions, and minute observance of all ritual duties ..."
5. The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, Kt., First Instructor, Afterwards by John Strype, William Elstob (1821)
"... bnt acknowledg bi fauting theer week- nes, hav so much the greeter degree to
amendment, that thear own knowledg ..."
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