Lexicographical Neighbors of Fainest
Literary usage of Fainest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1903)
"Have mercy, Jesu, said Sir Launcelot, I may y call myself the most unhappiest
man that liveth, for ever When I would fainest have worship there befalleth me ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... she were wroth or wele apaid, ¡he might not sec whan she woll fainest, ind
wroth she was in very earnest *o tell her word, ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... And glad to loose, that fainest I would finde. In one self thyng I finde both
baall and blisse: But this is straunge, I like no life but this. ..."
4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... I trust, than they that would fainest, shall be able to prove. It is a strange
thing, JOT suy, that I neither would write, nor send you word by ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... and great and wide lands, for, saith he, he is fainest of all things to bestow
his realm and lordship upon you." Then Gunnar turned his head aside, ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... they defended them and brought them to the King, who for his honor made them
good cheer and demanded of them whither they would fainest go. ..."
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