释义 |
nay-saying [f. nay adv. + saying vbl. n.] Denial, contradiction.
1535Coverdale Heb. vii. 7 Now is it so without all nay-sayenge that the lesse receaueth blessynge of y⊇ greater. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 272 A straunge facion of puttyng awaye feare, not by naye saiyng, ne [etc]. 1952B. Wolfe Limbo (1953) iv. 222 His mind brimming with..the necessity for some nay-saying gesture against EMSIAC. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVI. 220 Subjects who obtained scores of 0, 1, and 11, 12 were dropped from the analysis as representing extremes of yeasaying or naysaying. |