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单词 again-sayer
释义

again-sayern.

Forms: see again- comb. form and sayer n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: again- comb. form, sayer n.1
Etymology: < again- comb. form + sayer n.1 Compare again-say v., again-saying n.
Obsolete.
A person who speaks against or contradicts someone or something; an opponent, a gainsayer.
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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).
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