Fain vs Wain - What's the difference?
fain | wain |
(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.
* 1599 ,
* 1633 , , XIV
* 1719 ,
(archaic, or, literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
As verbs the difference between fain and wain
is that fain is to be delighted or glad; to rejoice while wain is misspelling of lang=en.As an adjective fain
is well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.As an adverb fain
is with joy; gladly.As a noun wain is
a wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.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…
References
Anagrams
* ----wain
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish/Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn. Compare the doublet (wagon).Noun
(en noun)- "The Hay Wain " is a famous painting by John Constable.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "wain")Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new. [http://www.modeldmedia.com/inthenews/urbanfarm15108.aspx]