gainsay
verb (used with object)
to deny, dispute, or contradict.
gainsayer
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a word derived from
gainsay.
Example Sentences
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The compendious method of silencing a gainsayer or satisfying an anxious inquirer by flourishing a New Testament in his face, and crying 'En sacrum codicem,' seems hardly likely to have been very effective.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
Pray send me your authority to confound this gainsayer, if you know any thing particular of the matter.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
It cannot be done otherwise than to propose to the gainsayer an interview, and if he attend to it, to refute his arguments.
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente
But Ulf persisted not only in stubbornly repeating his praises of the king, but in bringing them to the proof; and proposed their gainsayer a wager.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
But Ramsay had no gainsayer, and The Gentle Shepherd was the first of books in most Lowland homes.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
