gainsay
verb (used with object)
to deny, dispute, or contradict.
will gainsay
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future tenseof gainsay.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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So the wizards at the flower show can guess again if they like, for nobody who knows the Bible will gainsay them.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, no man that understands the woods will gainsay them advantages," added the squatter; "and of all on 'em am I now in the enj'yment.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
Use of the absolute superlative is always dangerous, but none will gainsay that statement, I am sure.
From A Little Book for Christmas by Cyrus Townsend Brady
Well, not one will gainsay you nor blame you, For your wishes are ever fulfilt; And how proudly your father will claim you, When arrayed in a tartan and "tilt"!
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Wilfred S. Skeats
But it is no jest wherein they say that they will gainsay him nought, and that especially the young women.
From Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris
