英和和英

名詞

daresaying (複数形 daresayings)

1. (まれに) 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.
   • 1865, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘And I—What I Seem to My Friend, You See!’”, in Sir Jasper’s Tenant […], volume III, London: John Maxwell and Company […], OCLC 2200995, page 117:

     A deal of good your daresaying will do me on Saturday, when old Sloper hauls me over the coals in his private office, [...]

   • 1901, E[dith] Nesbit, “Being Beavers; or, The Young Explorers (Arctic または Otherwise)”, in The Wouldbegoods […], London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], OCLC 716475690, page 155:

     Really great explorers would never be discouraged by the daresaying of a farmer, still less by his calling them names he ought not to.