Fain vs Increased - What's the difference?
fain | increased |
(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 ,
(increase)
(of a quantity) To become larger.
* Bible, Genesis vii. 17
* Shakespeare
To make (a quantity) larger.
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, title= To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
* Sir M. Hale
(astronomy) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
An amount by which a quantity is increased.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
(knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see .
As verbs the difference between fain and increased
is that fain is (archaic) to be delighted or glad; to rejoice while increased is (increase).As an adjective fain
is (label) well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.As an adverb fain
is (archaic) with joy; gladly.fain
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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…
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Anagrams
* ----increased
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*increase
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Alternative forms
* encreaseVerb
(increas)- The waters increased and bare up the ark.
- The heavens forbid / But that our loves and comforts should increase , / Even as our days do grow!
Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
- Fishes are more numerous of increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn.
- The Moon increases .
Synonyms
* (become larger) go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly) * (make larger) increment, raise, (informal) upAntonyms
* (become larger) decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink * (make larger) cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduceDerived terms
* increasableNoun
(en noun)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
