Fain
a.
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Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
Men and birds are fain of climbing high.
To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business.
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Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
The learned Castalio was fain to make trechers at Basle to keep himself from starving.
Fain
adv.
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With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat.
Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not.
Fain
v. t. & i.
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To be glad ; to wish or desire. [Obs.]
Whoso fair thing does fain to see.