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gainsay (third-person singular simple present gainsays, present participle gainsaying, simple past and past participle gainsaid) To contradict; to withsay; to deny, refute; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
Historical Examples. 1  When Henry stood forward and claimed the vacant throne by right of conquest and also by right of descent, no one gainsaid him. 2  But Cousin Jasper, having once conceived the idea, was not to be gainsaid. 3  But the result could 94 not be gainsaid; it was for the French a complete and costly failure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 Franciscans to French Language Various. Every word you say in their praise and honour is truth, and canna be gainsaid.