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gainst

gainst preposition: against.

Preposition

gainst

  1. (poetic) Against.
    • Then gan triumphant Trompets ſovvnd on hye, / That ſent to heuen the ecchoed report / Of their nevv ioy, and happie victory / Gainſt him, that had them long oppreſt with tort, / And faſt impriſoned in ſieged fort.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 172

Words formed from gainst

Questions about gainst

What does gainst mean?
Gainst means against.
What part of speech is gainst?
Gainst is a preposition.

Words near gainst in the dictionary

  1. gainsharing
  2. gainside
  3. gainsome
  4. gainspeaker
  5. gainspeaking
  6. gainst
  7. gainstand
  8. gainstander
  9. gainstanders
  10. gainstanding
  11. gainstands

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