Gainstrife

Origin

From - + strife. Compare gainstrive.

Full definition of gainstrife

Noun

1. Contention; striving against.
• 2009, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John:He had come to see Ralph, but my lady took him off to one of the solars, and said briskly: 'Now, I charge you, John, no prating to my lord about all this gainstrife that is sprung up over my brother Somerset's ending, for he is nigh ...