Definition of Fainness

1. eagerness [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fainness

fainaigued
fainaigues
fainaiguing
faine
faineance
faineances
faineant
faineants
fained
fainer
faines
fainest
faining
fainites
fainly
fainness (current term)
fains
faint
faint-hearted
faint of heart
fainted
fainter
fainters
faintest
fainteth
fainthearted
faintheartedly
faintheartedness
faintheartednesses
faintier

Literary usage of Fainness

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

1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Fain promise never more to disobey ; Why am / loth f And o'er the lea I leuk fu' fain . . S. Young Jockey \ fainness [fondness]. ..."

2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... ^in his fainness. as his Destiny would hare it> also claps. •'See! they understand one another! ..."

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