Fainting
['fentɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Faint
(n.) Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of fainting, signifies illness in your family and unpleasant news of the absent. If a young woman dreams of fainting, it denotes that she will fall into ill health and experience disappointment from her careless way of living.
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Examples
- The next instant I threw myself through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Oliver availed himself of the kind permission, and fell to the floor in a fainting fit. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I am not hysterical, nor given to fainting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now, do be quiet, Maurice, or you'll be fainting again. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Night fell upon us before we reached our goal, and, almost fainting from weariness and weakness, we lay down and slept. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In his heat and triumph, and in his knowledge that I had been nearly fainting, he did not remark on my reception of all this. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A man has entered our bedroom, answered I, and Martha was thinking about fainting! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I saw the case was a fainting-fit, not necessarily dangerous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She gave a strange cry, turned and clung to him, sinking her face on his breast, fainting in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And I must say, I think she was used very hardly; for your sister scolded like any fury, and soon drove her into a fainting fit. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Then he fell back into an arm-chair so limp and exhausted with his own emotions that we had to pour brandy down his throat to keep him from fainting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The word roused the failing, fainting spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They mark'd him as he onward prest, With fainting heart and weary limb; Kind voices bade him turn and rest, And gentle faces welcomed him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A viper--a fiddlestick, said Miss Sharp to the old lady, almost fainting with astonishment. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- After he was gone, Rosamond tried to get up from her seat, but fell back fainting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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