adv. Obs. Forms: 1 þær toʓeanes, þar toʓenes, 3 þer to ȝenes, þertoȝeines, þerteyens. [Orig. two words: OE. þǽr, THERE 17, toʓenes, TO-GAINS; if the compound had survived till 15th c. it would have become theretogainst.]
1. Against or in opposition to that.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 236. Swilce hi wislice sprecon! Ac we cweðað þær toʓeanes, þæt God is Ælmihtiʓ.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 80. Nu we schullen sumhwat speken … aȝein vuel speche þæt ȝe þertoȝeines tunen ower earen.
1340. Ayenb., 11. Huo þet deþ þerteyens be his wytinde zenȝeþ dyadliche.
2. In return for that; in exchange therefor.
1066–9. in Thorpe, Charters (1865), 436. We habbaþ heom ʓeunnen … and hi us þar toʓenes ʓifeþ.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 203. Ech man þe for mine name … folȝeð me he shal fon þer to ȝenes hundredfeld mede.
