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daresaying

noun

Etymology

From daresay + -ing.

  1. derived from *sokʷ-h₁-yé-✻
  2. inherited from *sagjaną✻ — “to say”
  3. inherited from *saggjan✻
  4. inherited from secgan — “to say, speak”
  5. inherited from seyen
  6. compounded as daresay — “dare + say”
  7. suffixed as daresaying — “daresay + ing”

Definitions

  1. gerund of daresay

    gerund of daresay: an act of venturing to say (as the speaker believes something is likely to be the case); the action of presuming or thinking that something is probable.

    • A deal of good your daresaying will do me on Saturday, when old Sloper hauls me over the coals in his private office, [...]
    • Really great explorers would never be discouraged by the daresaying of a farmer, still less by his calling them names he ought not to.
    • As philosopher Huw Price of the University of Sydney has reiterated, any reasoning that applies to the initial conditions should also apply to the final conditions, or we will be guilty of daresaying the very thing we were trying to prove.

  2. present participle and gerund of daresay

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA