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gainsay (verb):
1: to declare to be untrue or invalid
2: contradict, oppose
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology :You might have trouble figuring out the meaning of gainsay if you’re thinking of our modern word gain plus say. It should help to know that the gain part comes to us from the Old English word gean-, meaning “against” or “in opposition to.” In Middle English, gean- was joined to seyen (“to say”) to form gein-seyen, which led to the modern word gainsay. So when you see gainsay, think “to say against”—that is, “to deny” or “to contradict.”
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