[f. as prec.: see -ANCY.] The quality or condition of being a faineant.
1854. Thoreau, in H. S. Salt, Life (1890), 156. They may be single, or have families in their faineancy.
1884. Goldwin Smith, The Conflict with the Lords, in The Contemporary Review, XLVI. Sept., 316. The reduction of the House of Lords to faineancy by a process somewhat similar to that by which the Crown was finally divested of power.
