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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
faint
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Examples
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Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
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My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
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My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
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A charm as radiant as beauty ever beamed, a love that fainteth at the sight of its object, is new to-day.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
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And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
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Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
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My soul longeth, yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord;
Union and Communion 1832-1905 2000
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My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psalms 84. 1999
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My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Psalms 119. 1999
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