Lexicographical Neighbors of Gainest
Literary usage of Gainest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"GAIN, GAINER, gainest, adj. and adv.—Near, handy, convenient. So gain as I live.
... Yon's the gainest road. It's not them always does best as lives ..."
2. A Literary Source-book of the Italian Renaissance by Merrick Whitcomb (1898)
"The boy's air and aspect pleased the king, and he said to him, "Tell me, boy,
who art thou, and whence thou comest, who is thy father, and what thou gainest ..."
3. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"In the Eastern counties gain signifies handy, convenient, or desirable ; and in
the North, near, as " the gainest road," which seems most nearly to resemble ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe). by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"gainest, adj. and adv.— Near, handy, It's as gain as we can make it He's very
gain blind ... Yon's the gainest road. It's not them always does best as lives ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Halliwell. (c) Honest; respectable. Halliwell. (d) Moderate; cheap. I bought the
horse very gain. Forby. At the gainest*, or the ..."
6. Tertullian by Tertullian (1842)
"But how unjust, yea how unthankful is it, not to repay from thyself that, which
through another's kindness thou gainest from others, unto Him through Whom ..."
7. Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical by George Ellis (1811)
"gainest under gore,' Hearken to my roun! * An bendy hap, &c. It is not impossible
that ... The word gainest occurs in the same sense in Dunbar's " Twa ..."
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