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gainsaid
Part of speech: ParticipleContradicted.
Usage examples "gainsaid":- At this question Dante seemed to pluck up some courage- not much, indeed, but still a little; and he made bold to answer her after the manner that is called symbolic, and this, or something like this, is what he said: " Madonna, I may compare myself to a man that is going on a journey very instantly, and since no man that rides out of a gate can say to himself very surely that he will ride in again, I have certain thoughts in my heart that clamor to make themselves known to you, and will not by any means be gainsaid if I can at all compass the way to utter them." - "The God of Love", Justin Huntly McCarthy.
- The Romans on their side collected their troops in haste, but with a lurking sense of having transgressed; and since they had gainsaid the counsel of their priests, they durst not have recourse to the sacrifices and ceremonies by which they usually sought to gain the favor of their gods. - "A Book of Golden Deeds", Charlotte M. Yonge.
- That was not to be gainsaid. - "Sweethearts at Home", S. R. Crockett.