Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GAIN
GAIN, n.1 [Fr. gain.]
- Profit; interest; something obtained as an advantage. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. – Phil. iii.
- Unlawful advantage. – 2 Cor. xii.
- Overplus in computation; any thing opposed to loss.
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