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withspeak

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Verb — To argue against what someone has said.

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Etymology

This word revives Middle English withspeken (“to speak against, contradict”), itself from Old English wiþsprecan (“to contradict, gainsay, revile”), going back to Proto-West Germanic *wiþisprekan and made up of with- and speak. It is cognate with Old Frisian withspreka (“to disagree”), Saterland Frisian wierspreeke (“t...

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