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Say-so

noun

One chap's arbitrary assertion.

An authoritative declaration. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.

The power or right to give orders or make decisions. Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization, dominance, potency. "Deputies are given authorization to make arrests" , "A place of potency in the state"

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"Say-so" Quotes from Famous Books

... all right, but I'm going to tell you one or two things. This falling for anybody's say-so about medical jealousy and competition is simply part and parcel of your usual willingness to think the worst you possibly can of us poor dubs in Gopher Prairie. Trouble with women like you is, you always want to ARGUE. Can't take things the way they are. Got to argue. Well, I'm not going to argue ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... am going to marry Boris Ragnor, and then the widow Brodie would—take charge of thee." She shut the door to these words and Adam heard her laughing all the way to her own room. Then he rubbed his hand slowly over and over his mouth and said to himself—"She shall have her say-so; Boris is the only man on the Islands ...

— An Orkney Maid • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... Commissioners with wide discretionary powers. They would be made responsible for the proper conduct of the entire grain trade and deal with all matters pertaining thereto. They were to have the absolute say-so in regard to car distribution and there was one clause that threatened this protection for which the Western farmers had fought so ...

— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse

... is seen, no other proof for this theory (that is all that one call it) of Dr. Coriat and the Freudian school in general, than his or their say-so. Those who are acquainted with the method of arriving at conclusions adopted by the Freudian school will demand more than this as proof of either the "concealment" of some "sexual secret" of childhood (and where lives there a man or woman that has not sexual memories, not necessarily secrets, ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... lived an' that I'd keep an eye on you an' see that nothin' wrong happened to you. Your mother couldn't speak none then, Miss Donnie, but she give my hand a little press to show she was on an' that whatever I did was done with her say-so. Consequently, Miss Donnie, any time you need a friend you just ring up the Silver Dollar saloon an' tell the barkeep to call Hennage to the 'phone. Remember! I ain't the presumin' kind, but I ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne