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What does gainsay mean?

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Verb
  1. To contradict something said
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No-one can possibly gainsay the need to travel on the railway in safety and it will be difficult to advance an argument against these giants.
He had a hot temper and a weekly column in which he could publicly tear to shreds anyone who dared gainsay him or meddle with his works.
Everyone who believes it is legit will find some way to gainsay the believers.
But it is hard to gainsay the fundamental reality that the liberal news media are more firmly in the saddle than ever.
Legitimate children were subject to the commands of their father, with the mother having no legal right to gainsay him.
Now I dance to my own piper and if I want to sleep in I have no master to gainsay me.

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