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Definition of Faintnesses
1. faintness [n] - See also: faintness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faintnesses
Literary usage of Faintnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not by Florence Nightingale (1912)
"In cases of long recurring faintnesses from disease, for instance, especially
disease which affects the organs of breathing, fresh air to the lungs, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"... at lightning speed, under the canicular sky and up the torrid slopes, and,
during the rush, the sudden faintnesses that turned him dizzy in his saddle; ..."
3. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Of all the hateful faintnesses of praise in the critical tool-box that word "wholesome"
is the most fatal. But after living through the recent and ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1895)
"There may be muscular tremors, flushings, perspirations and faintnesses. In many
instances there are paroxysmal attacks characterised by flatulence, nausea, ..."
5. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Annotated by Thomas Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... mind these faintnesses!" He put his arm round her to support her; she clasped
her hands over his other arm, leant her forehead on his shoulder, ..."
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