fain
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In vain the kindly call: in vain The plate for which thou once wast fain At morn and noon and daylight’s wane, O King of mousers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
“Ah, good my lords, what a nose is his! When one sees it, one is fain to cry aloud, ‘Nay! ’tis too much!’”
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
‘I will,’ said he, ‘finish my business in Sogn and Hordaland, for I would fain in the summer take my ship out to Iceland.’
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
Gone are such phrases as "is come," "would fain," such words as "divers" and "privily."
From Time Magazine Archive
But there are many Smatterers and ignorant Fellows, that would fain reconcile the ancient Writers, and excuse these lyes; not seeing what damage they bring to the Common-wealth of Learning.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing fain
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Julius Caesar
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