faulter
English
Noun
faulter (plural faulters)
- (obsolete) One who commits a fault.
- 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 940138160:
- Behold the faulter here in sight.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for faulter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Verb
faulter (third-person singular simple present faulters, present participle faultering, simple past and past participle faultered)
- Archaic spelling of falter.
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
- 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!
- The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], OCLC 1202978654, page 179:
- “You know all, then?”—“I know nothing,” said Melmoth faultering.
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
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