"gainstay" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "gain",
        "3": "stay",
        "t2": "to stand"
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      "name": "prefix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gainstand"
      },
      "expansion": "gainstand",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gain- + stay (“to stand”). Compare gainstand.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gainstays",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gainstaying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gainstayed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gainstayed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "55 45",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with gain-",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Bill McAdoo, Pre-Civil War Black Nationalism",
          "text": "Among the diversity of opinions that are entertained in regard to physical resistance, there are but a few found to gainstay that stern delcaration.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Randall Roorda, Dramas of solitude: narratives of retreat in American nature writing",
          "text": "But this stance informs the way I regard the student essays I surveyed earlier, my belief that however challenging I may be in provoking interpretations of Thoreau, I ought not to gainstay my students' own Thoreauvian productions, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, William Hill, Wizard Sword",
          "text": "[...] Then I dare not gainstay you, Devin. I just wish to bring out the best in such a noble son of Zenn-Ra.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stand against or in opposition to; resist; oppose."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "stand",
          "stand"
        ],
        [
          "against",
          "against"
        ],
        [
          "opposition",
          "opposition"
        ],
        [
          "resist",
          "resist"
        ],
        [
          "oppose",
          "oppose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To stand against or in opposition to; resist; oppose."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
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          "name": "English terms prefixed with gain-",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1926, Theosophical Society (Madras, India), The Theosophist",
          "text": "… it was intended to be, a living fire of force in the world that cannot be gainstayed and which no storms can shake."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nancy Ann Watanabe, Love eclipsed: Joyce Carol Oates's Faustian moral vision",
          "text": "An illiterate woman, Mai-ch'en's wife is not gainstayed the benefit of the doubt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deny (the right to); deprive (of)."
      ],
      "id": "en-gainstay-en-verb-cCmhomhP",
      "links": [
        [
          "deny",
          "deny"
        ],
        [
          "deprive",
          "deprive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To deny (the right to); deprive (of)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "gainstand"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "withset"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "withsit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gainstay"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English terms prefixed with gain-",
    "English verbs"
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    {
      "args": {
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      "name": "prefix"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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      },
      "expansion": "gainstand",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gain- + stay (“to stand”). Compare gainstand.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gainstays",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gainstaying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gainstayed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gainstayed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gainstay (third-person singular simple present gainstays, present participle gainstaying, simple past and past participle gainstayed)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Bill McAdoo, Pre-Civil War Black Nationalism",
          "text": "Among the diversity of opinions that are entertained in regard to physical resistance, there are but a few found to gainstay that stern delcaration.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Randall Roorda, Dramas of solitude: narratives of retreat in American nature writing",
          "text": "But this stance informs the way I regard the student essays I surveyed earlier, my belief that however challenging I may be in provoking interpretations of Thoreau, I ought not to gainstay my students' own Thoreauvian productions, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, William Hill, Wizard Sword",
          "text": "[...] Then I dare not gainstay you, Devin. I just wish to bring out the best in such a noble son of Zenn-Ra.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stand against or in opposition to; resist; oppose."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stand",
          "stand"
        ],
        [
          "against",
          "against"
        ],
        [
          "opposition",
          "opposition"
        ],
        [
          "resist",
          "resist"
        ],
        [
          "oppose",
          "oppose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To stand against or in opposition to; resist; oppose."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1926, Theosophical Society (Madras, India), The Theosophist",
          "text": "… it was intended to be, a living fire of force in the world that cannot be gainstayed and which no storms can shake."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nancy Ann Watanabe, Love eclipsed: Joyce Carol Oates's Faustian moral vision",
          "text": "An illiterate woman, Mai-ch'en's wife is not gainstayed the benefit of the doubt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deny (the right to); deprive (of)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deny",
          "deny"
        ],
        [
          "deprive",
          "deprive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To deny (the right to); deprive (of)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gainstand"
    },
    {
      "word": "withset"
    },
    {
      "word": "withsit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gainstay"
}