'ganst
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gănst, IPA(key): /ɡænst/
Verb
'ganst
- (archaic, chiefly poetic) Abbreviation of beganst.
- 1815, Sir Egerton Brydges (editor), Restituta; or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived, volume 3, page 329:
- Why didst thou not their ruin recognize,
Before thou ‛ganst this wicked enterprize?
- 1825, Hugh Stuart Boyd, Thoughts on an Illustrious Exile; with Other Poems, page 4:
- Yes, thou wert brightest throned in regal power,
But greatest sinking in Misfortune’s hour.
Yes, like the God of Day, thou ‛ganst to peer,
And clothe with golden light our hemisphere.
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Anagrams
- Gnats, Stang, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnats, stang, tangs