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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

... their halberds high into the air.[29] Among these last tradition places a portrait of Aretino, which is not now to be recognised with any certainty. Were the pedigree of the canvas a less well-authenticated one, one might be tempted to deny Titian's authorship altogether, so extraordinary are, apart from other considerations, the disproportions in the figure of the youth Francesco. Restoration must in this instance have amounted to entire ...

— The Later works of Titian • Claude Phillips

... Eurydice's life. We all are destined to you and sooner or later must pass to your domain. She too, when she shall have filled her term of life, will rightly be yours. But till then grant her to me, I beseech you. If you deny me I cannot return alone; you shall triumph in the ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... and with tears entreated they would pity a poor creature who had forgot all that was in the Bible. This moved all the spectators with a deep melancholy; and the Chancellor, reflecting upon the man's great parts, former esteem, and the great share he had in all the late revolutions, could not deny some tears to the frailty of silly mankind. At his examination, he pretended he had lost so much blood by the unskilfulness of his chirurgeons, that he lost his memory with his blood; and I really believe that his courage had been drawn out with it. Within a few days he was brought before ...

— Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems • W.E. Aytoun

... plain truth now, Miss Danton—all these gifts that God has bestowed upon you so bountifully, you have misused. It doesn't seem so to you, does it? You think you have been very good, very charitable, very condescending. I don't deny that you have done good, that you have been a sort of guardian angel to the poor and the sick; but what was your motive? Was it that which makes thousands of girls, as young, and rich, and handsome as yourself, resign everything for the humble garb and lowly duties of a Sister of ...

— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming

... again, and cheered and cheered, after I had finished singing "The Laddies Who Fought and Won." And there were those who called to me for a speech, but so much I had to deny them, good though they had been to me, and much as I loved them for the way they had received me. I had no words that night to thank them, and I could not have spoken from that stage had my life depended upon ...

— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder

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