"feint praise"--eggcorn?

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jul 14, 2012, at 4:45 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>
> From "faint praise"?
> Apparently not in the eggcorn database. GB gives "about 277 results."

> "Rowan, who received his DPhil a few years before me (in the area then normally called „patristics‰) when he was at Wadham and I was at Keble, have only one thing in common: we wrote poetry.  His is good and mine is bad.  That is not a plea for mercy and feint praise;

not in ecdb or mentioned in the Eggcorn Forum.  either no one had come across examples, or people (quite reasonably) dismissed it as a simple spelling confusion and not anything eggcornish (what semantics would _feint_ contribute to the expression?).

arnold

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