Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Glad; fain; delighted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Fain; glad; delighted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
fain ;glad ;delighted
Etymologies
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See fain.
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Examples
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Nis hit ðe no wurðscipe þ̵ þe deouel me to {} drawe. ȝif þu wult hit iðauien iwis he wule ðurchut fawe. vor he nolde neu {er} re þ̵ þu hefedest wurðschipe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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It was in deedefpoken of afore by prophecies: but theycouldc not geuclb great hcede to the prophecics, as to be nothing moued with the new - nelfe of the thing that they fawe.
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1 A Nr I fawe a. dreame, eV behold an eagle came vp out of the ZJL fea: which had twelue winges of fechcrs, and three heades.
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