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gainsayer
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "gainsayer":- Mr. Smith's book is spiritualism from beginning to end; and my anonymous gainsayer, honest of course, is either ignorant of the work he thinks he has read, or has a most remarkable development of the organ of imperception. - "A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)", Augustus de Morgan.
- Nor is it open to the gainsayer to contend that they were kings indeed but of some chance city. - "Agesilaus", Xenophon.
- In the course of time after the vital interests of Britain, France, and Japan had been disposed of, and only those of the " lesser states," in the more comprehensive sense of this term, remained, President Wilson exercised supreme power, wielding it with firmness and encountering no gainsayer. - "The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference", Emile Joseph Dillon.