Definizione monolingua

gainsay

gainsay (third-person singular simple present gainsays, present participle gainsaying, simple past and past participle gainsaid)

1. To contradict; to deny, refute; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
   • 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 84:

     The supreme court, therefore, may assume jurisdiction over subjects and between parties, not allowed by the constitution, and there is no power in the federal government to gainsay it.

   • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:

     Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.

Definizione dizionario gainsay

contraddire

negare

Altri significati:

to deny; to contradict

To contradict; to deny, refute; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.