Definition of "fainter" []

• Comparative form of faint: more faint (adjective)

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• "Because these two animals are the chief characters, they must be painted in fainter colors – they should be suggested rather than presented in detail."
• "The more distant the body part—for instance, the eye sockets or the neck—the fainter was the image recorded on the Shroud."
• ""effacement;" the closer the gradual union becomes the fainter is the self-personality, till at length it fades away entirely, and is merged and lost as a drop in the illimitable sea."