gainst

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preposition

Against.

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Meanings

preposition
  1. poeticAgainst.

    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

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

gainst. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gainst

MLA

“gainst.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gainst. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gainst,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gainst.

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