a. Now arch. and dial. [OE. unfæʓen (f. un- UN-1 7 + fæʓen FAIN a.), = ON. úfeginn (Norw. ufegen).] Not glad or delighted; ill-pleased, sorry; reluctant.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3591. Quen þai it [sc. eld] haue þai are vnfayn, And wald ha youthed þan again.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 100. He seged bi þat coste þe kastelle of Tenkere … Þe Courthose was vnfayn, him þenk it a trespas.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 12107. All þe folke were vnfayn, & of fyn will To haue reft hir the rynke.
a. 1450. Le Morte Arth., 2691. They made hem Redy to that Rese, There-fore was fele folke vnfayne.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 43. Force it wes the Romanis for till fle, And leif the feild, thocht tha war rycht vnfane.
a. 1600. Floddon F., xiv. in Child, Ball., III. 355. If Lancashire and Cheshire be fled and gone, Of those tydings wee may be vnfaine.
1846. Whistle-Binkie, II. 11. Though o’ him the men were a’ rede and unfain, The lasses aye leuch when they met him again.
1876. Whitby Gloss.
1881. Macm. Mag., XLIII. 234. As she told, The hearers were unfain to hear.
