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gainst, prep.
Also 'gainst.
[Rather a poetic aphetizing of against than the direct descendant of gain, gains. For other examples see against.]
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 38 Both firmely armd for every hard assay, With constancy and care, gainst daunger and dismay. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, iii. ii, A bloody part, flatly gainst law of arms! 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. D iv, That gainst the Pope I should in no wise stand. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, cxxxi, A strange Doctrine Irrelative; but lately vrg'd 'Gainst Harrie's Title. |