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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gainsaw en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English gainsawe, ȝeinsawe, equivalent to gain- + saw (“a saying”). Compare gainsay.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Gainsaying; contradiction.

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