faulter
English
Etymology 1
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:
- Behold the faulter here in sight.
Etymology 2
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!
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 179:
- “You know all, then?”—“I know nothing,” said Melmoth faultering.
Further reading
- “faulter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.