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English
Etymology 1
From fault + -er.
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 Hatfield, for I Iaggard and M 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.
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