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Faineancy

Faineance \Fai"ne*ance\, Faineancy \Fai"ne*an*cy\, n. [Cf. OF. faineance. See Fain['e]ant.] Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

The mask of sneering faineance was gone.
--C. Kingsley.