But Ulf persisted not only in stubbornly repeating his praises of the king, but in bringing them to the proof; and proposed their gainsayer a wager. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
But he adds: “And I do not see how they can argue with anyone or even convince a gainsayer who uses the same plea, without setting down strict boundaries between faith and reason.”. From Wordnik.com. [John Locke] Reference
If he had been interested only in anointing himself a gainsayer of modern art, he could have simply refused to make art at all and confined himself to showing up at gallery openings dressed as Savonarola. From Wordnik.com. [Every Picture Tells] Reference
And I do not see how they can argue with any one, or ever convince a gainsayer who makes use of the same plea, without setting down strict boundaries between faith and reason; which ought to be the first point established in all questions where faith has anything to do. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Although his supporters, who comprise mainly those in his age group, hold him in high reverence, the much more enlightened generation of young Zambians feel Kaunda has reduced himself from an eminent African statesman to a professional gainsayer who does not have the interests of the country at heart. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He was laughed to scorn as a half-mad enthusiast; denounced as a blasphemer and gainsayer of Scripture truth; cried down as an ignoramus, unworthy of the slightest attention from men of science; tantalised by half promises; wearied by vexatious delays: and yet never did his courage fail nor his purpose waver. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
They were distinguished by native mental vigor, shrewdness, extraordinary knowledge of human nature, many of them by overwhelming natural eloquence, the effects of which on popular assemblies are scarcely paralleled in the history of ancient or modern oratory, and not a few by powers of satire and wit which made the gainsayer cower before them. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
But no voice of a gainsayer was heard, and Agni said. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolfings] Reference
Even Brigham seemed to have become a gainsayer in behalf of. From Wordnik.com. [The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West] Reference
Get good principles, that you may be able to oppose the gainsayer. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
Ross Douthat, in his now-familiar role as Chait gainsayer, gainsays. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Christopher the Old; and that will I maintain with my body against every gainsayer. From Wordnik.com. [Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair] Reference
To them he was the gainsayer, the destroyer, the most shattering of existent forces. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Rebellion] Reference
Lord dooming his stiff-necked gainsayer to wander to and fro on earth till his second coming. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Goethe] Reference
Nor is it open to the gainsayer to contend that they were kings indeed but of some chance city. From Wordnik.com. [Agesilaus] Reference
Pray send me your authority to confound this gainsayer, if you know any thing particular of the matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
About the middle of the twelfth century came, so far as the world now knows, the first gainsayer of this general theory. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
And he not only gives consolation but also stops the mouth of the gainsayer, saying here, "dividing to each one severally even as he will.". From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
I say that I am King of Oakenrealm, and the very son of King Christopher the Old; and that will I maintain with my body against every gainsayer. From Wordnik.com. [Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair] Reference
This preliminary statement of it has been made as a safeguard for the reader; it shall be so developed and explained hereafter as to frustrate the schemes of the gainsayer. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
Again, when the gainsayer in a public debate is closely pursued by the truth, he uses invectives instead of arguments, which is a plain indication of his mouth being stopped. From Wordnik.com. [American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod] Reference
To oppose; to disapprove of and attempt to prevent; to actively resist or refuse to comply with; to dissent; to repudiate; to be anti -; to controvert; to be the antagonist; to be the gainsayer. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Japan had been disposed of, and only those of the "lesser states," in the more comprehensive sense of this term, remained, President Wilson exercised supreme power, wielding it with firmness and encountering no gainsayer. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference
But if he refuses to attend, the bishop has discharged his duty; for the gainsayer thereby shows that he is, already convinced, and his mouth stopped, because, if he believed that he could not be refuted, he would by no means avoid the light. From Wordnik.com. [American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod] Reference
The period was now arrived when our Chaplain, that stout gainsayer of the Herrnhut Brethren, must discover, to his deep, but I trust, sanctified humiliation, that his best and once most zealous hearers were now all leaning to the side of that Community. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Fair Saint. Book VI] Reference
In vain does the gainsayer ask. From Wordnik.com. [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference
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