Meaning & use
fain
Gladly, willingly, or by preference; used mainly in old-fashioned or literary English.
See it in a sentence
The knight would fain have stayed home, but duty called him to war.
She would fain forget the whole embarrassing episode ever happened.
A note on using this word
'Fain' survives today mainly in the fixed phrase 'would fain', found in older literature and poetry rather than modern speech.
Words with a similar meaning
gladlywillingly
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