Thesaurus: fain

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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. 1. Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. Men and birds are fain of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor. 2. Satisfied; contented; also, constrained. Shak. The learned Castalio was fain to make trechers at Basle to keep himself from starving. Locke. With joy; gladly; -- with wold. He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat. Luke xv. 16. Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not. Shak. To be glad ; to wish or desire. [Obs.] Whoso fair thing does fain to see. Spencer.
8. 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.
9. r:100 s having made preparations r in a willing manner