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Thesaurus: fain

Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.

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  1. a. Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
  2. a. Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
  3. adv. With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
  4. v. t. & i. To be glad ; to wish or desire.
  5. adj. having made preparations
  6. adv. with pleasure
  7. With joy; gladly; -- with wold.He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine dideat. Luke xv. 16.Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not. Shak.
  8. r:100 s having made preparations r in a willing manner