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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

against opposite (now only in over against); in resistance to XII; contrary to; in return for XIII. ME. aʒeines, aʒaines, aʒens, f. aʒein, etc. + -es, see prec., -S. For the parasitic -t cf. AMIDST, AMONGST.

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