Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Deceit; hypocrisy; feigning.
- noun Faintness; weakness.
- noun Faint-heartedness; cowardice.
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Examples
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"Je vous assure," wrote Margaret of Savoy to her father, the Emperor, (p. 073) "qu'en lui n'a nulle faintise."
Henry VIII. 1908
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