foregainst
Meanings
prep
- Directly opposite to; in the opposite scale to.
Word forms
Etymology
From Middle English *foregaynst, foreagenis, foragenis, foreganis, from Old English fōran onġēan (“opposite”), equivalent to fore- + gainst. Compare German vorentgegen.
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