fain
pronunciation
How to pronounce fain in British English:
UK [feɪn]
How to pronounce fain in American English:
US [feɪn]
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- Adjective:
- having made preparations
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- Adverb:
- in a willing manner
Word Origin
- fain (adj.)
- Old English fægen, fagen "glad, cheerful, happy, joyful, rejoicing," from a common Germanic root (cognates: Old Saxon fagan, Old Norse feginn "glad," Old High German faginon, Gothic faginon "to rejoice"), perhaps from PIE *pek- (1) "to make pretty." Often "glad" in a relative sense, "content to accept when something better is unobtainable." As an adverb, from c. 1200. Related: Fainly.
Example
- 1. Alice didn 't even have the energy to fain astonishment .
- 2. Los angeles river at griffith park ( william fain )
- 3. I would fain stay at home .
- 4. And I fain would have you remember me as a beginning .
- 5. Scholars with political integrity , must be fain goodness .