a. Obs. [f. FOR- pref.1 + FAINT a.] Very faint. So † Forfainted. ppl. a.

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14[?].  Why I can’t be a Nun, 112, in E. E. P. (1862), 141.

        And at that worde for-feynte I fylle
Among the herbes fresche and fyne.

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1563.  Sackville, Induct. Mirr. Mag., xv.

        And with that worde of sorrowe all forfaynt
She looked vp, and prostrate as she laye
With piteous sound loe thus she gan to saye.

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1566.  Drant, Wail. Hierim., 3.

        For foode to theyr forefainted soules,
  longe soughte they farre and neare.

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