单词 | again-sayer |
释义 | † again-sayern. Obsolete. A person who speaks against or contradicts someone or something; an opponent, a gainsayer. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > speaking against or contradiction > [noun] > one who withsayerc1420 gainsayer1435 again-sayerc1449 contradictor1599 oblocutor1603 contradictist1630 disassertor1651 contradictionist1890 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 98 Proued trewe aȝens alle aȝenseiers whiche euere thei ben. a1450 (c1395) Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (New Coll. Oxf.) (1850) iii. 63 To withstonde aȝenseyeris [a1425 E.V. the withseieris to withstonde]. 1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 227/2 Stoppe the mouthes of the agaynesayers. 1586 L. Daneau tr. True & Christian Friendshippe iv. sig. B3 These former Arguments of the againsayers, are vnsufficient and prooue nothing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.c1449 |
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