单词 | i, he, etc would fain |
释义 | > as lemmasI, he, etc. would (†had) fain Gladly, willingly, with pleasure. Frequent in I, he, etc. would (†had) fain; otherwise Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adverb] to goodeOE thankc888 yernec888 lieflyc900 lovelyeOE lustly971 willinglyOE wilfullyc1000 with (also mid) heart and hand (also hands)OE fainc1175 lustilya1225 lief1297 yfaȝea1300 blethelyc1300 goodlya1375 blelyc1380 willingc1384 bainc1400 acceptably1479 bainlya1500 cheerfully1523 towardly1523 desirously1531 pronely?1532 fainly1535 wilningly1597 bongre1598 libentiously1606 volently1614 propensely1648 easily1649 with (a) good grace1650 unreluctantly1655 with the best will (in the world)1814 unhesitatingly1829 unqualifyingly1841 unloathly1844 happily1889 α. β. c1330 King of Tars 1058 Ageyn the soudan he gan hyghe, And wolde hym sle ful fawe.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 308 Þanne wolde þay wel faȝe ȝif þei miȝt helpe to þat sir Olyuer hadde be slaȝe.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 35 Ic walde fein pinian and sitten on forste and on snawe. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 85 Vor uein wolde þe hexte cwemen ou. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 272/53 I chulle þe telle fayn. c1440 York Myst. xx. 121 And if þou wolde neuere so fayne. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 430/3 The soppes of which he fayne ete. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. iv. 64 To bryng agane Eneas ful fane thai wald. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxv. 151 The kyng..demaunded of them whyther they wolde faynest go. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. Dv A mirrhour..Wherein her face she often vewed fayne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 63 I would faine dye a dry death. View more context for this quotation 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §86. 98 I wou'd fain know wherein consists that Sharpness. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. x. 216 He full fain would sleep. 1858 J. M. Neale tr. Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix 32 My spirit seeks thee fain. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 67 Those who would fain divide the community into two great castes. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 173 She..kisseth her sweet and fain. 1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. ii. vii. 35 She had fainer not. < as lemmas |
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