fain
IPA: fˈeɪn
noun
- A surname.
verb
- (archaic) To be delighted or glad; to rejoice.
- (archaic) To gladden.
- (Germanic paganism) to worship, to celebrate, to offer an oblation which is not sacrificial blót.
adjective
- (archaic) Well-pleased, glad.
- (archaic) Satisfied, contented.
- (archaic) Eager, willing or inclined to.
- (archaic) Obliged or compelled to.
adverb
- (archaic) With joy; gladly.
- (archaic) By will or choice.
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Examples of "fain" in Sentences
- Martin listened and fain would have rubbed his eyes.
- He, too, had fain been the father of her children, and many skins has he cured thereto.
- "Why do you not draw back your garment's hem?" she was fain to cry out, all in that flashing, dazzling second.
- [56] Morris became so intolerant of French vocables that he detested and would "fain" have eschewed the very word literature.
- No, I could not "fain," as she did; but I glanced at my watch as I rose from the table, and found that it wanted a quarter of eight.
- I would have fain rubbed my eyes and looked again, for, as far as I could see, the rocks bordering upon the ocean were covered with seals.
- I am fain to leave a walled house, and, better still, to get outside of the walls within and join the city in friendship and let the city join me.
- I wish it had been vouchsafed me to be by when your spirit of a sudden grew willing to bestow itself without question or let or hope of return, when the self broke up and grew fain to beat out your strength in praise and service for the woman who was soaring high in the blue wastes.
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