amain
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From a- + main (“strength, power, force”).
Alternative forms[edit]
- amaine (obsolete)
Adverb[edit]
amain (comparative more amain, superlative most amain)
- (literary) With all one's might; forcefully, violently; mightily. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
- So likewise turnde the Prince upon the Knight, / And layd at him amaine with all his will and might.
- 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, that Part especially now called England; from the first traditional Beginning, continued to the Norman Conquest. Collected out of the antientest and best Authours thereof, The Second Book:
- They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 637–638, page 42:
- Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightieſt deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Againſt the uncircumciſ'd, our enemies.
- 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel, line 87:
- They spurred amain, their steeds were white:
- 1799, William Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:
- Suspended by the blast which blew amain,
- Shouldering the naked crag, oh at that time,
- While on the perilous ridge I hung alone,
- With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind
- Blow through my ears!
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
- (archaic) At full speed; in great haste. [from 16th c.]
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[The Historie of Scotlande.]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, OCLC 55195564:
- They fled amain.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Iris: […] her [Juno's] Peacocks flye amaine : […]
- 1870, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Chimes, VII, lines 5-6:
- The heavy rain it hurries amain
- And heaven and the hurricane.
- (archaic) Exceedingly; overmuch.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, line 430, page 115:
- They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain, […]
- (Britain dialectal) Out of control.
- 1790, Felling/Heworth, Errington:
- two waggons coming after me amain […]
- 1790, Felling/Heworth, Errington:
Translations[edit]
in a forceful manner
at full speed
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
amain (third-person singular simple present amains, present participle amaining, simple past and past participle amained)
Anagrams[edit]
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Norse almanna (“for everyone”).
Adjective[edit]
amain m
Tagalog[edit]
Noun[edit]
amaín
Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English amen, from Latin āmēn.
Interjection[edit]
amain
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, →ISBN
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