Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To speak against; contradict; deny; refuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To contradict; to gainsay; to deny; to renounce.
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- verb transitive To
contradict ;gainsay ; go against;oppose ;resist .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He would withsay, nepertheloss, that is too me mean.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"Sir," he said, "I might not withsay mine uncle's will and commandment."
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Sir, he said, I might not withsay mine uncle's will and commandment.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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But I have opposed them, and think to withsay, for I have been steward of all Britain's land, and earl I am potent, unlike to my companions, and I have Welshland half part in my hand; more I have alone than the others all clean.
Roman de Brut. English Layamon
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All she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Sir, he said, I might not withsay mine uncles will and commandment.
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I sent to them also martyrs, confessors, and doctors, and they accorded not to them, ne to their doctrine, but because it appertaineth not to me to withsay thy request, I shall give to them my preachers, by whom they may be enlumined and made clean, or else I shall come against them myself if they will not amend them.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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Sir, he said, I might not withsay mine uncle's will and commandment.
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All she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God’s rightwiseness to withsay.
Ulysses 2003
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Sir, he said, I might not withsay mine uncle’s will and commandment.
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