daresaying

English

Etymology 1

From daresay +‎ -ing.

Noun

daresaying (plural daresayings)

1. (rare) 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, 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 or Otherwise)”, in The Wouldbegoods […], London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], →OCLC, 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.

   • 2021, SQ3R:

     As philosopher Huw Price of the University of Sydney has reiterated, any reasoning that applies to the initial conditions should also apply to the final conditions, or we will be guilty of daresaying the very thing we were trying to prove.

Etymology 2

From daresay +‎ -ing.

Verb

daresaying

1. (rare) present participle and gerund of daresay