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Deny v. t. (past & past part. denied; pres. part. denying)

1.

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; opposed to affirm, allow, or admit. Note: We deny what another says, or we deny the truth of an assertion, the force of it, or the assertion itself.

2.

To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce. (Obs.) "If you deny to dance."

3.

To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request. "Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?" "To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it."

4.

To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow. "The falsehood of denying his opinion." "Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved."

To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial. "Let him deny himself, and take up his cross."

Deny v. i. To answer in negative; to declare an assertion not to be true. "Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid."

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"Deny" Quotes from Famous Books

... that honour might refuse. And although I have but little cause to love you, and so might be absolved from being loyal and true to you, my love of God and of my honour has hitherto sufficed to keep me from doing aught that would call for confession or shame. I will not deny that I went into a closet as often as I could to speak with him, under pretence of going thither to say my prayers, for I have never trusted the conduct of this matter to any one, whether man or woman. Further, I will not deny that when in so secret a place and safe ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

... presently to court," so Walsingham was informed by Stafford, "and dealt very passionately with the King and Queen-Mother to deny them audience, who being greatly offended with his presumptuous and malapert manner of proceeding, the King did in choler and with some sharp speeches, let him plainly understand that he was an absolute king, bound ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... Nepcote would prefer to perish as the victim of circumstances rather than incur public opprobrium by a defence which he knew would never be believed. The actual facts against him were too strong. He could neither extenuate nor deny them. He could not explain his lying telegrams, his secret return, his presence in the moat-house, his possession of the necklace, the revolver in the bedroom where the body was. Therefore, it was only necessary ...

— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

... of Miss Francis' prophesies or not, it would be futile to deny that a certain amount of trepidation accompanied the decision to use the bomb. Residents of Arizona wanted it dropped in California; San Franciscans urged the poetic justice and great utility of applying it to the very spot where the growth originated; all were in ...

— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... had many poetical writers, but no poet, and this at a time when Tennyson was already famous. The same spirit of exclusion, in a minor degree, will deny the existence of all poets except three, or perhaps four, in a generation. It would be presumptuous to hope to be one of the three; but I do not think it was presumptuous in me to hope for some readers for my verse. As this autobiography ...

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al

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