Word Meanings - AIDANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.

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• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• GAINSTAND
  To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.
• GAINSTRIVE
  To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
• ENEMY
  One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood. To all good he enemy was still. Spenser. I say unto you, Love
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• ARCHENEMY
  A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind. Milton.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• 'GAINST; GAINST
  A contraction of Against.