10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAINEANCE»
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faineance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... absentmindedness (see corresponding adjectives at ABSTRACTED): laziness,
slothfulness, faineance (see corresponding adjectives at LAZY) appliqué vb »
overlay, superpose, superimpose Ana ornament, »adorn, decorate: affix, attach, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
“Forth comes Lord Faineance, King of Indolence!” With the herald's
announcement, a thin man with a small round stomach walked into the chamber
dragging his feet as he came. He wore a threadbare, faded-purple tunic and a
tabard with the ...
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You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu: An A--to--Z Guide to ...
A related noun is faineance (FAY nee ənss), meaning “thestate of beingafainéant
”: “The circumstances ofhis birth—he was an only childborn intowealthto parents
who agreeably died young—madeit easy for him toembrace faineance.
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The Imperial dictionary, on the basis of Webster's English ...
Faineance (fa'ne-ans), n. [From faineant (which see) ] The quality of doing
nothing or of being idle; iudolence; sloth. The mask of sneering faineance was
gone : imploring tenderness and earnestness beamed from his whole
countenance.
John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale, 1883
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The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases
1863 The mask of sneering faineance was gone; imploring tenderness and
earnestness beamed from his whole countenance : C. Kingsley, HyPatia, ch. xxvii
. [Davies] *£ain6ant, adj. and sb. : Fr. : doing nothing, idle, slothful ; a do-nothing,
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Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, 1891
At the time he happened to be visiting with his older brother, Leroy, minister of
Christ Church in the town of Old Faineance, Connecticut. Sophia not only
belonged to his congregation, she was also desperately active in it, and Horace
was, ...
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Verbal Advantage: 10 Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary
The corresponding noun is faineance (FAY-nee-jnts). Faineance means idleness
, inactivity, indolence, or the lazy, do- nothing attitude of a faineant person. lf you
look up faineant in a current dictionary, you may find it spelled with an accent, ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2000
slothfulness, acedia, laziness, idleness, indolence, faineance, do-nothingness,
otiosity; unin- dustriousness, unenterprisingness, unambitiousness, want or lack
of ambition or enterprise, nonag- gressiveness; listlessness, Dial, limpsiness, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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Yale Sophomore: An Epic Novel of Youthful Ambition, ...
However, the welling-up was just not sufficient to uplift me from this disgusting
faineance. So I finished the French assignment and went immediately to an
English chore in Chaucer. I arranged a rendezvous with the French girl that so
disturbed ...
Robert Leland Johnson, 2004
Freed from the individuals all around him in which they lodged, the desires
moved towards their goals - lust to the one desired, ambition to the state sought,
faineance - what a lovely old word for sloth - towards rest. Like bees indeed, each
...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAINEANCE»
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faineance is used in the context of the following news items.
"No Ko Fio" Band: Marking Time To Paradise
The typical Ghanaian has earned the philosophy of faineance. Our indolent proclivities are a palpable quantity. As one quote I came across ... «allghananews.com, Jan 15»
Standing Our Ground
This is not the time for a few marches that soon dissipate as we drift back into the fog of faineance — watching fake reality television as our ... «New York Times, Jul 13»
