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faulter en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From fault + -er.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) One who commits a fault.
   • Behold the faulter here in sight. 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:

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faulter en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic spelling of falter.
   alt of falter
   • “You know all, then?”—“I know nothing,” said Melmoth faultering. 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 179:
   • The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt About his large dark locks, and faultering spake: Arise, good youth, for sacred Phoebus’ sake! 1818, John Keats, Endymion:

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