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amain

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amain [əˈmeɪn]
adv
Archaic or poetic with great strength, speed, or haste
[from a-2 + main1]
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Adv.1.amain - at full speedamain - at full speed; with great haste; "the children ran down the hill amain"
2.amain - with all your strengthamain - with all your strength; "he pulled the ropes amain"
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But as the strange captain, leaning over the pallid bulwarks, was in the act of putting his trumpet to his mouth, it somehow fell from his hand into the sea; and the wind now rising amain, he in vain strove to make himself heard without it.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
I care not for Spring; on his fickle wing Let the blossoms and buds be borne; He woos them amain with his treacherous rain, And he scatters them ere the morn.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of Heav'n, Pav'd after him a broad and beat'n way Over the dark Abyss, whose boiling Gulf Tamely endur'd a Bridge of wondrous length From Hell continu'd reaching th' utmost Orbe Of this frail World; by which the Spirits perverse With easie intercourse pass to and fro To tempt or punish mortals, except whom God and good Angels guard by special grace.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
 
 
 
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