Word Meanings - GAINSAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.

CONVINCER
One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
CONVINCE
1. To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master. His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak. 2. To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy
CONVINCEMENT
Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction. The fear of a convincement. Milton.