fawe
Middle English
Etymology 1
Compare fain.
Adjective
fawe
- fain; glad; delighted
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- I governed hem so wel after my lawe
That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre- I governed them so well by my rules that each was blissful and happy to bring me gay things from the fair
References
- “fawe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
From Old English fāh.
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