verb
withspeak
Withspeak (verb) means to argue against what someone has said.
verb
1
To argue against what someone has said.
"Krusche decides that it is necessary to expose and withspeak this destructiveness in public."
— C. M. A. van Ekris, Making See (2018)
"You withspeak yourself within two sentences."
— Step by Step, >are the memories real?? (1995)
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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 (“to contradict”), West Frisian wjersprekke (“to contradict”), Dutch weerspreken (“to contradict”) and German widersprechen (“to contradict, gainsay”).
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"withspeak" (verb) means to argue against what someone has said.
