Gainsaying vs Detraction - What's the difference?
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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:
The act of detracting something, or something detracted.
A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
* (Isaac Barrow)
(Roman Catholic Church ) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
As nouns the difference between gainsaying and detraction
is that gainsaying is opposition, especially in speech while detraction is the act of detracting something, or something detracted.As a verb gainsaying
is present participle of lang=en.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.
Etymology 2
From gainsay.detraction
English
Noun
(wikipedia detraction)- If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world
