gainsay
verb (used with object)
to deny, dispute, or contradict.
had gainsaid
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past perfectof gainsay.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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This was the doctrine which framed the man's intention if not his conduct of life, and continued to shape it years after experience of the world, and especially of the business world, had gainsaid it.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
