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fainadjective having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action)during the Renaissance most men of science and the arts were fain to express their noblest thoughts in Latin, the lingua franca of the learned amenable, disposed, game, glad, inclined, minded, ready, willing predisposed, proneaccommodating, agreeable, compliant, cooperative, obedient, obliging, submissivefavorable, receptiveprepared, prompt, quick, responsive, swiftdesirous, eager, enthused, enthusiastic, excited disinclined, unamenable, unwilling averse, loath(also loth or loathe), reluctant, reticent fainadverbby choice or preference"I would fain not marry that suitor, my lord," the princess pleaded first, preferably, rather, readily, soon, willingly alternately, alternatively, either, insteadelectively, optionallydesirably, gladly, wishfullyobligingly, voluntarily involuntarily, unwillingly reluctantlyforcibly, willy-nilly before the 12th century |