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Denial   /dɪnˈaɪəl/   Listen
noun
Denial  n.  
1.
The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; the contrary of affirmation. "You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient."
2.
A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.
3.
A refusal to grant; rejection of a request. "The commissioners,... to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give,... had not to complain of many peremptory denials."
4.
A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.
Denial of one's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.






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"Denial" Quotes from Famous Books



... have anything fevery about me," said Mrs. Jake, with an air of patient self-denial; and though both her companions were most compassionate at the thought of her real sufferings, they could not resist the least bit of a smile. "I declare you've done one first-rate thing, if you're ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... this time made against Cicero without a grain of evidence, though indeed the accusations so made, and insisted upon, apparently from a feeling that Cicero cannot surely have been altogether clean when all others were so dirty, are too numerous to receive from each reader's judgment that indignant denial to which each is entitled. The biographer cannot but fear that when so much mud has been thrown some will stick, and therefore almost hesitates to tell of the mud, believing that no stain of this kind has ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope

... seemed to fall lightly on my father. He took a pinch of snuff, and waved his hand in an airy gesture of denial. ...
— The Unspeakable Gentleman • John P. Marquand

... this house, as in most houses, is no jest, I assure you. In a word, the cries which you utter when suffering from the insane fury of your sottish husband have reached even me, and I'm come to offer you a little advice and assistance. No denial of the fact, Juana; those black bruises avouch it without a tongue."—Juana held down her head, colour mounted into her cheeks, tears suffused her eyes, her bosom heaved convulsively, and for some moments she was silent from confusion, shame, grief, and gratitude. At length, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 350, January 3, 1829 • Various

... no denial to that. They made a trip to the Water Witch and collected their equipment, then planned what ...
— The Wailing Octopus • Harold Leland Goodwin


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