Meaning & use
Amain
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With great speed, force, or violence (archaic).
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The storm winds blew amain, tearing branches from the trees.
The soldiers charged amain across the open field.
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A now-archaic adverb common in Elizabethan and later poetic English, from Old English 'on main,' meaning 'with (full) strength.'
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