gainst

See also: 'gainst

English

Preposition

gainst

(poetic) Against.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 172:
  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.

Anagrams

Giants, TASing, Taings, aginst, at sign, at-sign, giants, sating, tagins, tangis, tasing

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