FALTERINGS
Noun
falterings
plural of faltering
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Source: Wiktionary
FALTERING
Fal"ter*ing, a.
Definition: Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton.
– n.
Definition: Falter; halting; hesitation.
– Fal"ter*ing*ly, adv.
FALTER
Fal"ter, v. t.
Definition: To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Fal"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering.]
Etym: [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See Fault, v. & n.]
1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his
tongue falters.
With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.
2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter."
Wiseman.
3. To hesitate in purpose or action.
Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. Shak.
4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the
mind or of thought.
Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance
falters. I. Taylor.
Fal"ter, v. t.
Definition: To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak
manner.
And here he faltered forth his last farewell. Byron.
Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine." Tennyson.
Fal"ter, n. Etym: [See Falter, v. i.]
Definition: Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken
sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition