withsay
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English withseien, from Old English wiþseċġan (“to speak against; to denounce, renounce, or deny”), corresponding to with- + say. Cognate with Old Saxon witharseggian (“to object”), Low German wedderseggen (“to renounce”), German widersagen (“to renounce”), Dutch wederzeggen and weerzeggen.