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Definition of Faintings
1. fainting [n] - See also: fainting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faintings
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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