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faint-heartedly en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of faintheartedly.
    • Then once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again. 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric Dreamed a Dream”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 132:

Forms

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most faint-heartedly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more faint-heartedly Degree=Cmp lexicographic