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