Fain vs Cheerful - What's the difference?
fain | cheerful |
(label) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
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*:Thus Gawayne and Ector abode to gyder / For syre Ector wold not awey til Gawayne were hole / & the good kny?t Galahad rode so long tyll he came that nyghte to the Castel of Carboneck / & hit befelle hym thus / that he was benyghted in an hermytage / Soo the good man was fayne whan he sawe he was a knyght erraunt
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Men and birds are fain of climbing high.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:To a busy man, temptation is fain to climb up together with his business.
*(rfdate) (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), A Death-Parting , line 11
*:O love, of my death my life is fain ,
*1900 , (Ernest Dowson), To One in Bedlam , lines 9-10
*:O lamentable brother! if those pity thee, / Am I not fain of all thy lone eyes promise me;
(label) Satisfied; contented.
*{{quote-book, year=2004, author=W. Ross Winterowd
, title= (archaic) With joy; gladly.
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* 1633 , , XIV
* 1719 ,
Noticeably happy and optimistic.
Bright and pleasant.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
As adjectives the difference between fain and cheerful
is that fain is (label) well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined while cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic.As an adverb fain
is (archaic) with joy; gladly.As a verb fain
is (archaic) to be delighted or glad; to rejoice.fain
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Searching for Faith: A Skeptic's Journey, publisher=Parlor Press, quotee=(John Donne), Holy Sonnet XIV , isbn=9781932559309, page=29 , passage=Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain ,}}
Adverb
(en adverb)- LEONATO: I would fain know what you have to say.
- Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain ,/ But am betroth’d unto your enemy
- The second thing I fain would have had was a tobacco-pipe, but it was impossible to me to make one…