Verb

To contradict; to withsay; to deny, refute; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

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* 1902 , , The Hound of the Baskervilles :

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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Verb

(upstar)

To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.

*1896 , Edward Dowden, The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley :

In the street or road he reluctantly wore a hat, but in fields or gardens his little round head had no other covering than his long, wild, ragged locks." These wild locks upstared more wildly when Shelley, having dipped his head, [...]

*1903 , Charles James Longman, Longman's magazine: Volume 42 :

Th' Blofielders wor a right upstaren' lot o' chaps, and we had several owd scores ter set off agin them, so all Ranner woted for savage camp and Blofield didn't gainsay us.

*1927 , Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven

I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there, / Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare

*1999 , Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana :

[...] aghast, upstared my Hair, I speechless stood!