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fained | faned |

As a verb fained

is past tense of fain.

As a noun faned is

the editor of a fandom publication, most commonly a fanzine.

fained

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (fain)

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    fain

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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= 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)
  • (archaic) With joy; gladly.
  • * 1599 ,
    • LEONATO: I would fain know what you have to say.
  • * 1633 , , XIV
    • Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain ,/ But am betroth’d unto your enemy
  • * 1719 ,
    • The second thing I fain would have had was a tobacco-pipe, but it was impossible to me to make one…

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To be delighted or glad; to rejoice
  • (archaic) To gladden

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    faned

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, fandom slang) The editor of a fandom publication, most commonly a fanzine.
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    • , year = 1946 , date = April , first = Wilson "Bob" , last = Tucker , authorlink = Wilson Tucker , title = , magazine = Bloomington News-letter , page = 1 , passage = Sample fanzine advertisement attached; same obtainable free from B.T. for any fan-ed wishing to run them. }}
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    • , year = 1961 , date = August , first = Walter Alexander , last = Willis , authorlink = Walt Willis , title = Black Mail , magazine = Willis Papers , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Willis_Papers/Black_Mail.html , passage = This British peculiarity, this psychopathic abhorrence for open spaces in fanzines, has been remarked on by many people but until this moment nobody has explained the real reason for it. It is not meanness, nor the high cost of paper, nor any obvious cause like that. It is simply that every British faned' walks in the shadow of fear, knowing himself to be a hunted man, a law-breaker, an enemy of society. He is the victim of a guilt complex that compels him to shun the free wide spaces beloved of US ' faneds and to crowd his materiel into a confined space as if huddling together for protection. }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1995 , monthday = September 11 , author = Lindsay Crawford , email = , title = Re: All Knowledge Is Cont , id = 9509101936014156@emerald.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/_zvlBqL5IJw/09O0IID9j9EJ }}
    A lot of crap passes through here that no decent faned would pub, while some of the traffic is meant to be playful or argumentive in a high volume, rapid turnover way, what you might call ephemeral, entertainment today, written over tomorrow.

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