What is "gainst"

Usage examples of "gainst".

As she said herself in her own truthful way, she ain never said nothin gainst Nile.

But sith that he is gone irreuocable,Please it you Ladie, to vs to aread,What cause could make him so dishonourable,To driue you so on foot vnfit to tread,And lackey by him, gainst all womanhead?

And now he hath to her prefixt a day,By which if that no champion doe appeare,Which will her cause in battailous arrayAgainst him iustifie, and proue her cleareOf all those crimes, that he gainst her doth reare,She death shall by.

During which time, that he did there remaine,His studie was true Iustice how to deale,And day and night employ'd his busie paineHow to reforme that ragged common-weale:And that same yron man which could reuealeAll hidden crimes, through all that realme he sent,To search out those, that vsd to rob and steale,Or did rebell gainst lawfull gouernment.

Vnknightly Knight, the blemish of that name,And blot of all that armes vppon them take,Which is the badge of honour and of fame,Loe I defie thee, and here challenge make,That thou for euer doe those armes forsake,And be for euer held a recreant Knight,Vnlesse thou dare for thy deare Ladies sake,And for thine owne defence on foote alight,To iustifie thy fault gainst me in equall fight.

And it was seated in an Island strong,Abounding all with delices most rare,And wall'd by nature gainst inuaders wrong,That none mote haue accesse, nor inward fare,But by one way, that passage did prepare.

Gainst whom Sir Artegall, long hauing sinceTaken in hand th'exploit, being theretooAppointed by that mightie Faerie Prince,Great Gloriane, that Tyrant to fordoo,Through other great aduentures hethertooHad it forslackt.

Ignorinsers' bliss, therefore, their not to say rifle butt target, none too wisefolly, poor fish, (he is eating, he is spun, is milked, he dives) upholding a lampthorne of lawstift as wand of welcome to all men in bonafay, (and the corollas he so has saved gainsts the virus he has thus injected !