gainsay

How To Use gainsay In A Sentence

• Beyond gainsay it is a genuine Rembrandt.
• During the immolation of Dunster the Rev.Mr. Mitchell had made up his mind that he "would have an argument able to remove a mountain" before he would swerve from his orthodoxy; he had since confirmed his faith by preaching "more than half a score ungainsayable sermons" "in defence of this comfortable truth," and he was now prepared to maintain it against all comers. The Emancipation of Massachusetts
• Now, I don't gainsay the need to start the transition process.
• And when Father had done investigating into his background found out he was the only son of an earl, and given his tacit approval of the match, how could she gainsay him?
• There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
• Seeing that there was indeed room, she began to settle in before anyone could gainsay her.
• But, alas! in the very rush, and storm, and tempest of the unfinishing business, an unlooked-for interruption arose in the person of a great Senator whose power none could oppose, whose right to free and extended utterance at all times none could gainsay. The Story of a Mine
• For the catastrophists, the flood that they believe filled the tar pits with carcasses in one day gainsays the theory of evolution, which they call gradualism. I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
• No one could gainsay that they had good reason, but I really feared for a time that we should have "ructions," As Paddy said, it was not wise or dignified for those officers to be so angry with him on account of his success, which he frankly owned was due almost entirely to the local knowledge he possessed, gained in many years 'study of the immediate neighbourhood. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
• Far be it from me to gainsay thee in aught, for I am indebted to thee for many favours and bounties and much kindness, and (praised be Allah!) The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night