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gainspeaker

noun

Etymology

From gain- + speaker.

  1. derived from *sprekô✻ — “speaker”
  2. derived from speca
  3. inherited from speker
  4. prefixed as gainspeaker — “gain + speaker”

Definitions

  1. A gainsayer

    A gainsayer; opponent.

    • To this was appended "A Brief Rehearsal of the Belief of the Good-willing in England which are named the Family of Love, With the Confession of their upright Christian Religion against the false Accusation of their Gain-speakers."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gainspeaker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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