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