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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gayne .
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Examples
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But Christian Princes and Rulars do take tributes/and gret taxes for these gaynes of vsurie and shamefull couetusnes of the Iues/so farr ar they from forbidding them these wicked practises.
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But cursed is that bellye whyche seketh to be fedde with suche ungodlye gaynes, and so depelye shameth hys natural conterye.
The Enemies of Books 1888
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[Headnote: THE RULE OF GOOD MANNERS.] ¶ Also, my chylde, a-gaynes þy lorde
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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But cursed is that bellye whyche seketh to be fedde with suche ungodlye gaynes, and so depelye shameth hys natural conterye.
The Enemies of Books William Blades 1857
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This shee may know, that I have sought God earnestly, that the nexte weeke I shall bee riper: -- I doubt shee gaynes most by such writings: & shee deserves most where shee is further of.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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after ai complaynd tat himz FB posts abaot fudz wuz maykin mi gaynes wayt!
squid tastee, you say… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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