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"ref": "1577, Socrates Scholasticus [i.e., Socrates of Constantinople], “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell, it was Held at Nicæa a Citie of Bythnia for the Debatinge of the Controuersie about the Feast of Easter, and the Rootinge out of the Heresie of Arius”, in Eusebius Pamphilus, Socrates Scholasticus, Evagrius Scholasticus, Dorotheus, translated by Meredith Hanmer, The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. …, book I (The First Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs), imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate, →OCLC, page 225",
"text": "[…]vve are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already publiſhed of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gayneſay vs.",
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "отричам"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "противореча"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contradir"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "modsige"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "bestride"
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"word": "შეწინააღმდეგება"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "widersprechen"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
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"word": "tagad"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "ellentmond"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "motsi"
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "bestride"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "fornekte"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "forby"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contradizer"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contrazice"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozražátʹ",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "возража́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otricátʹ",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "отрица́ть"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "impugnar"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contradecir"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "motsäga"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "bestrida"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "förneka"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "inkâr etmek"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "itiraz etmek"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "reddetmek"
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"ref": "1577, Socrates Scholasticus [i.e., Socrates of Constantinople], “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell, it was Held at Nicæa a Citie of Bythnia for the Debatinge of the Controuersie about the Feast of Easter, and the Rootinge out of the Heresie of Arius”, in Eusebius Pamphilus, Socrates Scholasticus, Evagrius Scholasticus, Dorotheus, translated by Meredith Hanmer, The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. …, book I (The First Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs), imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate, →OCLC, page 225",
"text": "[…]vve are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already publiſhed of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gayneſay vs.",
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"text": "So she had, cried Scrooge. You’re right. I will not gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!",
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"ref": "1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles",
"text": "Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.",
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"ref": "2012 July 7, “Griffith acted, and lived, by Golden Rule”, in The Post and Courier&p_product=CPCB), Charleston: Evening Post Publishing, page 5, Features",
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"(transitive, formal) To say something in contradiction to."
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"roman": "otričam",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "отричам"
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"roman": "protivoreča",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "modsige"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "bestride"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "fornægte"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "tegenspreken"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "weerleggen"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "loochenen"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "kontraŭdiri"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "kiistää"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contredire"
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contradicir"
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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šec̣inaaɣmdegeba",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "შეწინააღმდეგება"
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"roman": "sac̣inaaɣmdegos tkma",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "საწინააღმდეგოს თქმა"
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"word": "შესიტყვება"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "შეკამათება"
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"roman": "uarq̇opa",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "უარყოფა"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "leugnen"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "widersprechen"
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"roman": "antilogéō",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "ἀντιλογέω"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "tagad"
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"word": "ellentmond"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "megcáfol"
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"word": "kontredicar"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contraddire"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "adversor"
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"sense": "to contradict something said",
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},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "refrāgor"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ódreče",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "о́дрече"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "protívreči",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "проти́вречи"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pórekne",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "по́рекне"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "motsi"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "motsi"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "bestride"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "fornekte"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "forby"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contradizer"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contrazice"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozražátʹ",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "возража́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otricátʹ",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "отрица́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "impugnar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "contradecir"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "motsäga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "bestrida"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "förneka"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "inkâr etmek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "itiraz etmek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to contradict something said",
"word": "reddetmek"
}
],
"word": "gainsay"
}
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