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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Nor is it open to the gainsayer to contend that they were kings indeed but of some chance city.
From Agesilaus by Henry Graham Dakyns
About the middle of the twelfth century came, so far as the world now knows, the first gainsayer of this general theory.
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White
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
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
As these show that it is the duty of a bishop to exhort and convince the gainsayer, and to stop his mouth, the question may be asked, How is this to be done?
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente
