Definition of "gainsaying" []

• Opposition, especially in speech. (noun)
• Refusal to accept or believe something. (noun)
• Contradiction. (noun)
• Denial; denying. (noun)
• Rebellious opposition; rebellion. (noun)

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• "All of the gainsaying is irrelevant and unnecessary in that light."
• "Answerable to this wilfulness of theirs, in gainsaying the truth,"
• "Alas! the more upright they are, the fitter for the Lord by them to break a gainsaying people."