Meaning of withsay | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To speak against someone or something.
   archaic, obsolete, transitive
2. To contradict or deny.
   archaic, obsolete, transitive
3. To gainsay, to oppose in speech (and by extension writing).
   archaic, obsolete, transitive
4. To forbid, to refuse to allow, give, or permit.
   archaic, obsolete, transitive
5. To decline, to refuse to do or accept.
   archaic, obsolete, transitive

Examples

“Sythe I have sayd it, I wyll never withsay it.”

“Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we withstand, withsay.”

“I wyll not withsaye thy desyre.”

“This is in noe wise to bee withsaid, for it is the King's honour.”

“I sent to them also martyrs, confessors, and doctors, and they accorded not to them, ne to their doctrine, but because it appertaineth not to me to withsay thy request, I shall give to them my preachers, by whom they may be enlumined and made clean, or else I shall come against them myself if they will not amend them.”

“He was mild to good men of God and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will.”

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