faintent

t. [ Thou wilt not be either so little absent as not to whet our appetites, nor so long as to fainten the heart. Bp . Hall , Christ among the Doctors. faintfult, a. [ faint + -ful .] Fainting; dejected. Titan's nieces gather all in one Those fluent springs of your lamenting tears, And let them flow alongst my faint full looks. Greene, Orlando Furioso. faint-heart, faint-hearted (fant'härt, -här"ted), a. Cowardly; timorous; easily alarmed or yielding to fear. Be not faint - hearted for these evil days, which are come to try us and purify us. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 197. From feare full cowards entrance to for stall, And faint - heart fooles, whom shew of perill hard Could terrifle from Fortunes faire adward. Spenser, F. Q., IV. x. 17. faint-heartedly (fant'härted-li), adv . In a timorous or cowardly manner.