Her knees trembled, her heart fluttered, a horrible faintness came over her.
Source: tatoeba (5838168)
Faintness
Synonyms for "faintness" (43 found)
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12 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- прималяване noun (property of being faint)
- слабост noun (property of being faint)
German
4 entries- Mattheit noun (property of being faint)
- Mattigkeit noun (property of being faint)
- Schwäche noun (property of being faint)
- Verblasstheit noun (property of being faint)
Irish
1 entries- laige noun (property of being faint)
Italian
4 entries- malore noun (property of being faint)
- stordimento noun (property of being faint)
- stornimento noun (property of being faint)
- svenevolezza noun (property of being faint)
Latvian
1 entries- blāvums noun (property of being faint)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at the chateau, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in.
Source: tatoeba (11945545)
And he first took exceptions at this badge, / Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower / Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.
Source: wiktionary
The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involved, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness, not from any capacity in the mind to receive any impression, which in its real existence has no particular degree nor proportion.
Source: wiktionary
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