"swainish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From swain + -ish.",
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      "form": "more swainish",
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      "form": "most swainish",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 177:",
          "text": "[W]hen good and faire in one Perſon meet, argues both a groſſe and ſhallow Judgement, and withall an ungentle, and ſwainiſh breſt.",
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          "ref": "1819 Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets - Volume 6",
          "text": "Falconer's characters are few; but the calm sagacious commander, and the rough obstinate Rodmond, are well contrasted. Some part of the love-story of Palemon is rather swainish and protracted, yet the effect of his being involved in the calamity, leaves a deeper sympathy in the mind for the daughter of Albert, when we conceive her at once deprived both of a father and a lover."
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        "Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain according to any definition; but commonly conveying the sense of \"ignorant\", or \"rustic\"."
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          "text": "Falconer's characters are few; but the calm sagacious commander, and the rough obstinate Rodmond, are well contrasted. Some part of the love-story of Palemon is rather swainish and protracted, yet the effect of his being involved in the calamity, leaves a deeper sympathy in the mind for the daughter of Albert, when we conceive her at once deprived both of a father and a lover."
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