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
Those are my opinions, and few Irishmen will gainsay them.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
Whatever be the causes which have begotten the neglect of rural life, no one will gainsay the wisdom of estimating the consequences.
From The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer by Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett
"Then shall he bear my standard," said the bishop, "and none will gainsay it," and so he turned to me.
From A Thane of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Thus far no intelligent psychical researcher will gainsay what I have said.
From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by A. Alpheus
