Word to the Wise: Gainsay

To "gainsay" (gane-SAY) – from the Old English for "against" + "to say" – is to deny or dispute.

Example (as used by Thomas M. Disch in The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of): "In our present, imperfectly postmodern world, where most information still takes the potentially embarrassing form of printed matter lurking in archives, liars still must position themselves so that the historical record may not easily gainsay them."

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