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/dɪnˈaɪ/ Listen

verb

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

... waited for an answer to her cry. "Kate thinks she cares. But she's mistaken. And no one knows it." These things, distinct and responsible, were Mrs. Lowder's retort. Yet they weren't all of it. "You don't know it—that must be your line. Or rather your line must be that you deny it utterly." ...

— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James

... one-fourth part of the whole being loam, and the other two-thirds or three-fourths manure; if a larger proportion of loam is used it will render the beds rather cold unless they are made unusually deep. I am not prepared to affirm or deny that this mixed material has any advantages over plain manure; I use it considerably every year and with good results; at the same time, I get as good crops from the plain manure beds. But it has many warm friends who are ...

— Mushrooms: how to grow them - a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure • William Falconer

... God of heaven and earth, and observe His commandments, taking that good and pious man Joseph as your model. Until the day of his death he would not have divulged what his brethren had done to him, and although God revealed their action to Jacob, he continued to deny it. Only after many efforts, when Jacob adjured him to confess the truth, he was induced to speak out. Even then he besought our father Jacob to pray for our brethren, that God account not the evil they had done ...

— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... request to make to you. This request you will grant or deny. In either case, as I shall have entered the Palace of the Luxembourg in the interest oL the First Consul, Bonaparte, and the royalist party to which I belong, I shall ask for your word of honor that I be allowed to leave it as freely as you ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere

... she was arraying herself against the fear that she might lose this haven of rest and joy, after all—the haven she had been willing to scourge and destroy in the bitterness of her heart. A great wave of pity for herself came sweeping over her. It grew out of the dread that he might, after all, deny her the place that no one else in the ...

— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon

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