All 19 Uses
feint
in
Dune
(Auto-generated)
- Paul snapped up the rapier, feinted fast and whipped it back for a slow thrust timed to enter a shield's mindless defenses.†
Book 1 *
- Around the room they fought — thrust and parry, feint and counterfeint.†
Book 1
- This is like single combat, Son, only on a larger scale — a feint within a feint within a feint ....seemingly without end.†
Book 1
- This is like single combat, Son, only on a larger scale — a feint within a feint within a feint ....seemingly without end.†
Book 1
- This is like single combat, Son, only on a larger scale — a feint within a feint within a feint ....seemingly without end.†
Book 1
- Jamis leaped high, feinting and striking down with his right hand, but the hand was empty.†
Book 2
- The way a slave cocked his head could give the most vital clue to counter and feint.†
Book 2
- A chill ran through him, and he wondered if Hawat had another plan for this arena—a feint within a feint within a feint.†
Book 2
- A chill ran through him, and he wondered if Hawat had another plan for this arena—a feint within a feint within a feint.†
Book 2
- A chill ran through him, and he wondered if Hawat had another plan for this arena—a feint within a feint within a feint.†
Book 2
- His feint and defensive counter were as good as any Feyd-Rautha had ever seen.†
Book 2
- "Try this one," he said, and feinted with the short blade in his other hand.†
Book 2
- The slave shifted knife hands, turned inside both parry and feint to grapple the na-Baron's short blade—the one in the white gloved hand that tradition said should carry the poison.†
Book 2
- Feints within feints within feints.†
Book 3
- Feints within feints within feints.†
Book 3
- Feints within feints within feints.†
Book 3
- Feyd-Rautha leaped, feinting with right hand, but with the knife shifted in a blur to his left hand.†
Book 3
- Paul, the smile frozen on his face, feinted with slowness as though inhibited by the drug and at the last instant dodged to meet the downflashing arm on the crysknife's point.†
Book 3
- He feinted right and under, and they were pressed against each other, knife hands gripped, straining.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(feint) any distracting or deceptive maneuver; or the act of making the maneuverFeint is most typically used for physical maneuvers as when boxing, fencing, or moving troops where a mock attack diverts attention from the real attack. But it can also be used much more generally as when Charlotte Bronte wrote of "a mere feint of politeness."
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, feint is a non-standard spelling of faint in the sense of something that is barley perceptible.