Rained vs Fained - What's the difference?
rained | fained |
(rain)
Condensed water falling from a cloud.
(figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
(figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
(impersonal) To have rain fall from the sky.
To fall as or like rain.
* Shakespeare
To fall in large quantities.
To issue (something) in large quantities.
(obsolete) (fain)
(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
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As verbs the difference between rained and fained
is that rained is past tense of rain while fained is past tense of fain.rained
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*rain
English
Noun
(en-noun)- We've been having a lot of rain lately .
- The rains came late that year.
- A rain of mortar fire fell on our trenches.
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Usage notes
* shower, downpour, drop are some of the words used to count rain.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
en verb)- It will rain today.
- The rain it raineth every day.
- Tears rained from her eyes.
- Bombs rained from the sky.
- The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head.
Derived terms
* Also see * it never rains but it pours * rain cats and dogs, rain dogs and cats * rain down * rain offSee also
* drizzle * hail * mizzle * precipitation * serein * shower * sleet * snow * storm *Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----fained
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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…
