Found 2 items, similar to Faltering.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: faltering
faltering
adj : unsteady in speech or action
faltering
n : the act of pausing uncertainly;
“there was a hesitation in
his speech” [syn:
hesitation,
waver,
falter]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Faltering
Falter
\Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Faltered; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Faltering.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault.
See
Fault, v. & n.]
1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as,
his tongue falters.
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With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
--Milton.
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2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
“He found his legs
falter.” --Wiseman.
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3. To hesitate in purpose or action.
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Ere her native king
Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak.
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4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said
of the mind or of thought.
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Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space
and distance falters. --I. Taylor.
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Faltering
\Fal"ter*ing\, a.
Hesitating; trembling.
“With faltering speech.” --Milton.
-- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. --
Fal"ter*ing*ly, adv.
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