单词 | glad and fain |
释义 | > as lemmasglad and fain a. Glad, rejoiced, well-pleased. Often in phrases, full fain, glad and fain. Const. of; also followed by infinitive or subordinate clause. Now chiefly dialect or poetic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [adjective] fainc888 gladlyc1000 golikc1175 gladful?c1225 joyfulc1290 joyousc1315 merryc1380 well begonea1425 frikec1430 rejoiced1533 delightful1534 rejoiceful1538 blitheful1559 gladded1569 blithelike1570 delighted1581 lighted1596 delighting1601 joyed1640 enjoying1651 gladdened1729 glad1799 like (or proud as) a dog with two tails1829 joyant1834 bird-blithe1917 gassed1941 enthralled1944 α. β. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 218 So þat hii mette hem þer, boþe hii were wel vawe.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3800 War-for y am wel fawe.c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xl. §5 Ic bio swiþe fægn gif ðu me lædest þider ic ðe bidde. OE Beowulf 1633 Ferdon forð þonon feþelastum ferhþum fægne. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2442 Þe duc þer-fore fain [c1300 Otho glad] wes. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4552 Of þair dede þai sal be fayn. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20452 I am ful fain yee ar me mid. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 974 Bot þen was þis wrechede mon full fayne. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 106 Now in hart full fane. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 589 He..of thair cuming wes so glaid and fane. a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1580) i. 7 He is very faine of the findyng of suche a fielde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. v. 73 Are glad and faine by flight to saue themselues. View more context for this quotation a1639 J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ (1640) iv. 56 Then full faine wilt thou be to have Chirst [sic] Iesus receive thy soule. 1664 Floddan Field vii. 65 And of his welfare all were fain. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xx, in Poems 16 My heart has been sae fain to see them. 1841 W. Wordsworth in R. H. Horne Poems G. Chaucer, Modernized 43 I should be wondrous fain That shamefully they one and all were slain. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. 195 My master is quite fain of his company. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 176 And fain and full was my heart. < as lemmas |
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