S vs Gainsaying - What's the difference?
s | gainsaying |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun gainsaying is
opposition, especially in speech.As a verb gainsaying is
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Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}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.