Usually means: Denying or disputing a statement.
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  1. gainsaying: Merriam-Webster
  2. gainsaying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gainsaying: Vocabulary.com
  4. gainsaying: Wordnik
  5. gainsaying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gainsaying: Wiktionary
  7. Gainsaying, gainsaying: Dictionary.com
  8. Gainsaying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Gainsaying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. gainsaying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. gainsaying: FreeDictionary.org
  12. gainsaying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gainsaying: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gainsaying)

noun:  Opposition, especially in speech.
noun:  Refusal to accept or believe something.
noun:  Contradiction.
noun:  Denial; denying.
noun:  (archaic or obsolete) Rebellious opposition; rebellion.

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