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English Dictionary: faineance by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
faineance
n
  1. the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: faineance, idleness]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Faineance \Fai"ne*ance\, Faineancy \Fai"ne*an*cy\, n. [Cf. OF.
      faineance. See {Fain[82]ant}.]
      Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.
  
               The mask of sneering faineance was gone. --C. Kingsley.
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