Gainstay

Among the diversity of opinions that are entertained in regard to physical resistance, there are but a few found to gainstay that stern delcaration.

But this stance informs the way I regard the student essays I surveyed earlier, my belief that however challenging I may be in provoking interpretations of Thoreau, I ought not to gainstay my students' own Thoreauvian productions, […]

" [...] Then I dare not gainstay you, Devin. I just wish to bring out the best in such a noble son of Zenn-Ra."

… it was intended to be, a living fire of force in the world that cannot be gainstayed and which no storms can shake.

An illiterate woman, Mai-ch'en's wife is not gainstayed the benefit of the doubt.