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1 Gainsaying -- rank: 1000

Gainsaying definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary GAINSA'YING, ppr. Contradicting; denying ... t. [imp. & p. p. Gainsaid (? or ?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gainsaying.] [OE. geinseien, ageinseien. See Again, and Say to utter.] To ...

2 Gainsay -- rank: 812

... syn: challenge, dispute, gainsay] Merriam Webster's transitive verb (gainsaid; gainsaying; gainsays) Etymology: Middle English gainsayen, from gain- against (from Old ... t. [imp. & p. p. Gainsaid (? or ?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gainsaying.] [OE. geinseien, ageinseien. See Again, and Say to utter.] To ... mortal sword Be drained. --Shak. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (gainsays, gainsaying, gainsaid) If there is no gainsaying something, it is true or obvious and everyone would agree with it. (FORMAL) There is no gainsaying the fact that they have been responsible for a truly ... to gainsay" (Lu 21:15); as antilego, "a disobedient and gainsaying people" (Ro 10:21); /APC 2Esdras 5:29, contradicebant; / ...

3 Contradiction -- rank: 544

... of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. --Shak. 2 ... what has been said requires no argument; in the latter "gainsaying" which is scarcely an improvement, the reference being to the ... of Jesus. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Gainsaying, denial. 2. Opposition, contrariety, incongruity, antagonism, clashing. Moby Thesaurus abjuration ... disunity, divergence, diversity, effective rejoinder, exception, exclusion, faction, forswearing, friction, gainsaying, head wind, hostility, ignoring, impugnation, impugnment, inaccordance, inconsistency, inequality, inimicalness ...

4 Denial -- rank: 370

... De*ni"al, n. [See Deny.] 1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought ... expense, forbearance, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, forfeit, forfeiture, forswearing, frugality, gainsaying, golden mean, head wind, heresy, holding back, ignoring, impugnation, impugnment ...

5 Refutation -- rank: 234

... disclaimer, disclamation, discrediting, disownment, disproof, effective rejoinder, elenchus, exception, forswearing, gainsaying, ignoratio elenchi, impugnment, nullification, objection, overthrow, overthrowal, plaidoyer, plea, pleading ...

6 Recantation -- rank: 234

... disposition, disproof, disregard, dissent, dumping, exception, exclusion, expatriation, forgoing, forswearing, gainsaying, getting rid of, giving up, holding back, ignoring, impugnment, invalidation ...

7 Principle of contradiction -- rank: 234

... of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. --Shak. 2 ...

8 Obloquy -- rank: 234

... of reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Reproach; odium; censure; contumely; gainsaying; reviling; calumny; slander; detraction. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms ...

9 JUDE, THE EPISTLE OF -- rank: 234

... covetousness and his seductive counsel. Furthermore, they "perished in the gainsaying of Korah." This man with 250 followers rebelled against the ...

10 FORTIFICATION; FORT; FORTIFIED CITIES; FORTRESS -- rank: 234

... yet for the fearless fulfillment of his commission to a gainsaying people, God made him "a fortified city (`ir mibhtsar), and ...

11 Denial of one's self -- rank: 234

... De*ni"al, n. [See Deny.] 1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought ...

12 disownment -- rank: 234

... disproof, disregard, disseisin, eviction, exception, exclusion, expatriation, expropriation, foreclosure, forswearing, gainsaying, ignoring, impugnment, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, nullification, palinode, palinody, passing by ...

13 disaffirmation -- rank: 234

... countering, crossing, denial, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, disproof, forswearing, gainsaying, impugnment, nullification, recantation, refutation, renunciation, repudiation, retractation, retraction, revocation

14 Disproof -- rank: 234

... countering, crossing, denial, disaffirmation, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, forswearing, gainsaying, impugnment, nullification, recantation, refutation, renunciation, repudiation, retractation, retraction, revocation

15 Disclaimer -- rank: 234

... disallowance, disavowal, disclamation, disobedience, disowning, disownment, disproof, dissent, expatriation, forswearing, gainsaying, holding back, impugnment, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no ...