"gainset" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Sith I doe not take vpon mee but to write bare Annotations, I leaue it to the Readers conſideration, who may ſee, now more then euer, that the world continueth the building of Babel: that is, men madly gainſet their owne wiſedome and power againſt the wiſedome and power of God; […]",
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          "ref": "1841, Charles Rogers, The Bairnsla Foaks' Annual: Be Tom Treddlehoyle, page 11:",
          "roman": "And the Man up in the Moon in his letter sent word,\nThis was to begin February Twenty-Third,\nShould you like to see it - put yourself in motion,\n And ask the gainset^([sic]) (opposite) way to the North Pacific Ocean;\nIf anxious you feel to be there before noon,\nYou must take a cheap trip in somebody's balloon; […]",
          "text": "An t'Man up it Mooin in hiz letter sent wurd,\n This wor ta begin Febrewerry Twenty-Thurd,\nShud yo like to see it - put yersen e moshan,\nAn ax't gainset way tut North Pacifick Oashan;\nIf ankshas yo feel to be there before nooin,\nYo mun tack a cheap trip e somebody's baloon;[…]",
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          "text": "Forsooth some gainsetting say: active life is more fruitful; for it does works of mercy, it preaches and works other such deeds; […]",
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          "text": "An t'Man up it Mooin in hiz letter sent wurd,\n This wor ta begin Febrewerry Twenty-Thurd,\nShud yo like to see it - put yersen e moshan,\nAn ax't gainset way tut North Pacifick Oashan;\nIf ankshas yo feel to be there before nooin,\nYo mun tack a cheap trip e somebody's baloon;[…]",
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          "text": "Forsooth some gainsetting say: active life is more fruitful; for it does works of mercy, it preaches and works other such deeds; […]",
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