Contumely vs Gainsaying - What's the difference?
contumely | gainsaying | Related terms |
Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.
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* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 19 (ISBN 1857150570)
* 1914 , (Grace Livingston Hill), The Best Man :
* 1953 , (James Strachey), translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Avon Books, p. 178:
* 1976 , (Robert Nye), Falstaff :
Opposition, especially in speech.
* 1903 , American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Baptist missionary magazine: Volume 83 :
Refusal to accept or believe something.
* 1859 , Henry Alford, The Greek Testament: :
Contradiction.
* 1969 , Robert Lisle Lindsey, A Hebrew translation of the Gospel of Mark :
Denial; denying.
* 1887 , The Rose of Paradise:
(archaic, or, obsolete) Rebellious opposition; rebellion.
* 1611 , King James Bible, Jude verse 11:
Contumely is a related term of gainsaying.
As nouns the difference between contumely and gainsaying
is that contumely is offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult while gainsaying is opposition, especially in speech.As a verb gainsaying is
.contumely
English
Noun
- For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...].
- She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.
- What scorn, what contumely , would be his!
- If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.
- I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely , you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.
gainsaying
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gaynesayenge, .Noun
(en noun)- This gainsaying may take numberless forms: [...]
- So that it is best to take this meaning here, and understand, that an oath puts an end to all gainsaying by confirming the matter one way , in which all parties consent [...]
- There is no gainsaying this logic.
- But there was no gainsaying the wisdom of the advice which he had given me as to concealing the treasure.
- Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.