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unfainly en · ADV

Etymology

From unfain + -ly.

Meanings

1. Sorrowfully.
   • Letter of Thomas Dudley to Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation: — Good Sir, — I have received your letters by Captain Standish, and am unfainly glad of God's mercy towards you in the recovery of your health, [...] 1900, Augustine Jones, The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley:
   • Matho, although disappointed that I was not able to save his goat, was unfainly glad at my success and accepted gratefully the Rs. 15/- I gave him for his animal. 1965, Augustus Somerville, The passing of the forest gods:
   • [...] And draws me on like one unfainly dead. 1976, Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems:

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