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Adjektiivi
- (chiefly UK, dialectal, or poetic) Often followed by of: glad, well-pleased.
- Glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative.
- (by extension) Compelled or obliged to.
- (UK, dialectal) Chiefly followed by to, or (obsolete) for or of: eager or willing, or inclined.
- (obsolete, except in fair and fain) Favourable, well-disposed.
- (obsolete) Accustomed, apt, wont.
Adverbi
- Chiefly preceded or followed by would.
- With joy or pleasure; gladly.
- By choice or will; willingly.
Verbi
- (archaic or obsolete, rare) To be delighted or glad about (someone or something); to rejoice in; also, to favour or prefer (someone or something).
- (obsolete) To make (someone) glad; to gladden; hence, to congratulate (someone); to welcome (someone).
- (Germanic paganism) To celebrate or worship; specifically, to offer an oblation which is not a sacrificial blót.
- (obsolete) Chiefly followed by of, in, on, or to: to be delighted or glad; to rejoice.
- (obsolete) To desire, to wish.
Esimerkit
- Thus Gawayne and Ector abode to gyder / For syre Ector wold not awey til Gawayne were hole / & the good knyȝt Galahad rode so long tyll he came that nyghte to the Castel of Carboneck / & hit befelle hym thus / that he was benyghted in an hermytage / Soo the good man was fayne whan he sawe he was a knyght erraunt
- Men and birds are fain of climbing high.
- To a busy man, temptation is fain to climb up together with his business.
- O love, of my death my life is fain,
- Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
- O lamentable brother! if those pity thee, / Am I not fain of all thy lone eyes promise me;
- LEONATO: I would fain know what you have to say.
- Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,/ But am betroth’d unto your enemy
- The second thing I fain would have had was a tobacco-pipe, but it was impossible to me to make one…
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