"faintful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From faint + -ful.",
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      "form": "more faintful",
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      "form": "most faintful",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1825, John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, A select collection of old plays",
          "text": "The shepherd sighs upon the barren hills / To see his bleating lambs with faintful looks / Behold the vallies robb'd of springing flowers, / That whilom wont to yield them yearly food.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Concetta Tina Scarpitti, Mysterious Eyes",
          "text": "When I look into the dainty eyes / I wash away the tears built inside, / Voices unheard, children's faintful cries / Teardrops falling down in disguise.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Casimir Greenfield, Bloodstones",
          "text": "The heights dizzied her, spiralling stone promising faintful vistas.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Derek C. Maus, Unvarnishing Reality",
          "text": "George's initial reaction to his assignments shows, he only vaguely comprehends what he is being asked to do, much less how to do it: “Founder! Founder! Those I thought I grasped, I gasped at; most signified not a thing to me. . . .Fist to brow I told them over, faintful list, and struck at each”.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Basil Essien, The Seekers' Elixir",
          "text": "Those who are sad are saddled / Those who are doubtful are downful / Those who are fearful are faintful / Those who are faintful are failure / Those who are defeated are deleted.",
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        "Displaying weakness, frailty, or faintness; fainting; dejected"
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          "faintness",
          "faintness"
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          "fainting",
          "fainting"
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          "dejected",
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  "word": "faintful"
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  "etymology_text": "From faint + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1825, John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, A select collection of old plays",
          "text": "The shepherd sighs upon the barren hills / To see his bleating lambs with faintful looks / Behold the vallies robb'd of springing flowers, / That whilom wont to yield them yearly food.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Concetta Tina Scarpitti, Mysterious Eyes",
          "text": "When I look into the dainty eyes / I wash away the tears built inside, / Voices unheard, children's faintful cries / Teardrops falling down in disguise.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2012, Casimir Greenfield, Bloodstones",
          "text": "The heights dizzied her, spiralling stone promising faintful vistas.",
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          "ref": "2012, Derek C. Maus, Unvarnishing Reality",
          "text": "George's initial reaction to his assignments shows, he only vaguely comprehends what he is being asked to do, much less how to do it: “Founder! Founder! Those I thought I grasped, I gasped at; most signified not a thing to me. . . .Fist to brow I told them over, faintful list, and struck at each”.",
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