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Gainsay   /gˈeɪnsˌeɪ/   Listen
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Gainsay  v. t.  (past & past part. gainsaid; pres. part. gainsaying)  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. "I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist." "The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained."






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"Gainsay" Quotes from Famous Books



... you think people would have paid their money with your brain as sole guarantee? You! Get along; I am the only one to make bargains like that, and you are the only one with whom I make them. Go, Marechal, give him his money; I won't gainsay it. But you are a trickster, ...
— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet

... "I cannot gainsay it, Master Oswald, though I did not think of it before; and it is certainly a proof that the time I spent in learning was not thrown away; for, as you say, had I not been able to read that missal, doubtless it would have gone hard with both of us. I am not ashamed ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty

... had overcome me so soon and easily. I paused for a moment, and looked back on them, seeing them large and vague through the mist of fever. "I am not going away," I said. "I am going for another messenger,—one you can't gainsay." ...
— The Open Door, and the Portrait. - Stories of the Seen and the Unseen. • Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant

... I could not gainsay him. We were in no trim for receiving broadsides, or grappling with sea-dogs, however merry the ports might be for a man in my plight. Our business was to bring the Misericorde safe into Leith Roads, and to that ...
— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed

... to the verge of hardness, could not gainsay the admirable and even-handed justice of John Bairdieson's position. More than that, he knew that every man in the congregation of the Marrow Kirk of Bell's Wynd would inevitably take ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett


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