What is to withstand; to resist. [Obs.] Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney called?
gainstand — To withstand; to resist. [Obs.] Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney. (Webster's 1913.)
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