Fain vs Sunshine - What's the difference?
fain | sunshine |
(label) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
*:
*: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.
* 1599 ,
* 1633 , , XIV
* 1719 ,
The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001
:
A location on which the sun's rays fall.
:
*
*:Out again into the sunshine by the wide mouth of the Green River, as the chart named the brook whose level stream scarce moved into the lake. A streak of blue shot up it between the banks, and a shrill pipe came back as the kingfisher hastened away.
Geniality or cheerfulness.
:
A source of cheerfulness or joy.
The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
(lb)
:
(lb)
:
(lb) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.
:
Open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.
As adjectives the difference between fain and sunshine
is that fain is well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined while sunshine is open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.As an adverb fain
is with joy; gladly.As a verb fain
is to be delighted or glad; to rejoice.As a noun sunshine is
the direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.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…
