"afaint" meaning in English

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          "text": "When, kneeling as she was, her limbs / Refused to bear her, and she fell afaint / From weariness and striving to become / A holy woman, all her splendid length / Upon the ground […]",
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        "(archaic, poetic) fainting"
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