† gainchare Obs.
Forms: 1 ᵹéancyr, 4 ȝeynchar, 5 gayne chare, geyn char.
[OE. ᵹéancyr: see gain- prefix and chare n.1 The word seems to survive in the technical term gainshire.]
A return, way of returning, means of escape.
| c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Spelman) xviii. 7 [xix. 6] Fram hean heofone is utgang his, and ᵹeancyr [L. occursus] his oþ to heahnesse his. c 1150 Eadwine's Psalter ibid., Edryne vel ᵹencyr. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. xiv. 46 Ah feyre levedis be on-war, To late cometh the ȝeyn-char, when love ou hath y-bounde. c 1340 Cursor M. 21922 (Trin.) Þo þat bifore wol not be war Þenne shul þei fynde no ȝeyn char. ? a 1500 Chester Pl. (E.E.T.S.) 435 Alas! ther is no gayne Chare, skape maye I not this chance. |
So † gain-charing.
| c 1275 Sinners Beware 58 in O.E. Misc. 74 Þar nys no yeyn cherrynge ne..non endynge. |