During the debate, one speaker tried to gainsay the opponent about each statement made about the topic. From LearnThat.org.
Go, Marechal, give him his money; I won't gainsay it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But he couldn't gainsay the man any more than I could. From Wordnik.com. [The Stoker and the Stars] Reference
And Judith answered him: Who am I, that I should gainsay my lord?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith The Challoner Revision] Reference
He was not a man given to superstitions, but he could not gainsay me. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
This I could not gainsay, and my mind, wearied, declined to ask further. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
It would seem that he could not gainsay her words, for he made no reply. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
The fairies could not gainsay this, and the bad fairy had her other chance. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
No one would gainsay that the enfranchisement of all ex-slaves was a mistake. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Who could gainsay those believed to hold in their hands the issues of life and death?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Miss Jemima was unable to reply; for it was impossible to gainsay her brother's words. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
"I suppose the beach is free to all?" he remarked; and my silence did not gainsay him. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
It was impossible to gainsay him, and the assembly dissolved without deciding on anything. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
If Darwin were not so irreplaceable as Lincoln, that should not gainsay his accomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?] Reference
We cannot establish free-will by rules of logic, we cannot gainsay it on the score of conviction. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
Stevenson quotes the phrase with obvious amusement and without attempting to gainsay its accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
And if you rise like men and demand that your Elders hearken to your voice, who shall gainsay you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Landing of the Pilgrims] Reference
I detain thee not, nor gainsay thy words: go, follow thine Italy down the wind; seek thy realm overseas. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Look out from your terrace of a morning, a cloudless morning of early summer, and gainsay it if you can. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
I have not yet met anybody of real authority who has attempted to gainsay it, or who has not endorsed it. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
She hints as much to the Doctor, who, in view of his recent communication from Maverick, will not gainsay her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
She spoke up boldly to him, and bade him tell her of his voyages; but he said he would not gainsay her a talk. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
Everybody was thus well pleased; and none were so ill bred as to gainsay what had been reported to his Lordship. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
The gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if he dared to gainsay the principles of these resolutions. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
These weighty propositions are, all and singular, true; I can not gainsay them; and truth ever was and will be commendable. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
My acquaintances, however, had been brought up in convents, or familiar with them for years, and I could not gainsay their statement. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
Much of this I could not gainsay, for only a few days previously I had been severely frowned upon for making inquiries about a broken leg. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
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