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- adjective
superlative form offaint : mostfaint .; mostfaint .
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Examples
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But Darrell returned to the other room, which interested him far more, each article in it bearing eloquent testimony to the happy young life of whose tragic end he had now often heard, but of which he was unable to recall the faintest memory.
At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand
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Of the three spots on the disc, the faintest is a satellite, the neighbouring dark spot its shadow, the other dark spot the shadow of the satellite close to the planet's disc.
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All these religious vows matter because they give us just the faintest glimpse of the only vow that never breaks: the vow God makes to love the world.
Serene Jones: Marriage Vows Are Non-Sense: Valentine's Day Thoughts On The Making And Breaking Of Marriage Vows Serene Jones 2011
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The 7-11 Knicks play Cleveland exile LeBron James and the Heat in Miami Friday night, and there's only the faintest of buzz.
Giants Hide Knick Pain Jason Gay 2012
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All these religious vows matter because they give us just the faintest glimpse of the only vow that never breaks: the vow God makes to love the world.
Serene Jones: Marriage Vows Are Non-Sense: Valentine's Day Thoughts On The Making And Breaking Of Marriage Vows Serene Jones 2011
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All these religious vows matter because they give us just the faintest glimpse of the only vow that never breaks: the vow God makes to love the world.
Serene Jones: Marriage Vows Are Non-Sense: Valentine's Day Thoughts On The Making And Breaking Of Marriage Vows Serene Jones 2011
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That is also the significance, he rightly discerns, of the election of Barack Obama, a centrist whose policies will contain only the faintest glimmer of progressivism.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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For all this, as I walk by the Yare, there is the faintest hint of change.
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That is also the significance, he rightly discerns, of the election of Barack Obama, a centrist whose policies will contain only the faintest glimmer of progressivism.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Matt failed to catch the faintest echo of insincerity.
CHAPTER 16 2010
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