[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That faints, in senses of the verb.
1558. Phaer, Æneid, VI. 361. The feble mone doth giue sometime a faynting light.
1576. A. Fleming, A Panoplie of Epistles, 76. The Senate, whom I perceived in manner fainting and wearie, I reuoked them to their auncient vertue, and former custome.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., II. v. 40. That I may kindly giue one fainting kisse.
1708. Edm. Smith, To the Memory of John Philips, in Anderson, B. P., VI. 618. The fainting Dutch remotely fire.
1771. Mrs. Griffith, trans. Viaud’s Shipwreck, 201. Yes, O Yes! she replied in an almost fainting tone.
1771. Hull, Sir W. Harrington, IV. 169. We had such trembling and almost fainting doings.
1818. Shelley, Lett., 10 July. Translating into my fainting and inefficient periods, the divine eloquence of Plato’s Symposium.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 239. His eloquence roused the fainting courage of his brethren.
