gainsayed
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gainsayed
- (nonstandard) simple past and past participle of gainsay
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 67:
- But Emily's excuse could not be gainsayed—she had that morning received news of the death of Lady Alicia Delawarr.