Thesaurus: fain
Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
Related headwords
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Definitions
- a. Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
- a. Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
- adv. With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
- v. t. & i. To be glad ; to wish or desire.
- adj. having made preparations
- adv. with pleasure
- 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.
- r:100 s having made preparations r in a willing manner