ppl. a. [f. FAINT v. + -ED1.] † a. Rendered cowardly or timid. † b. Become weak or exhausted. c. Fallen into a swoon (rare).

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c. 1500.  Melusine, 140. By one only Cowarde & feynted herte is sometyme lefte & loste al a hoole werke.

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a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, liii. 180. A! false faynted hert.

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1614.  Bp. Hall, A Recollection of such Treatises, 124. Why doth none of his gallant nobles reuiue the faynted courage of their Lorde with a new cuppe? or with some stirring jest shake him out of this vnseasonable Melancholie?

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1642.  Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus (1851), 296. So reviving to the fainted Common-wealth.

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1847.  Fraser’s Mag., XXXVI. July, 32. There she lies, not fainted, not in tears, but like a somnambule.

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