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Word Meanings - DENIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth

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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. Bp. Stillingfleet. 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. Hallam. 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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  • STINTLESS
    Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
  • RENUNCIATION
    Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.
  • STINTEDNESS
    The state of being stinted.
  • DENIAL
    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. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
  • ABNEGATION
    a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.
  • DISALLOWANCE
    The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection. Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection.
  • ABSTINENCE
    1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
  • STINT
    Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. A phalarope.
  • ABJURATION
    1. The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. 2. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. Oath
  • STINTER
    One who, or that which, stints.
  • STINTANCE
    Restraint; stoppage.
  • SELF-RENUNCIATION
    The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
  • ABRENUNCIATION
    Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
  • PRENUNCIATION
    The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.
  • INABSTINENCE
    Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
  • SELF-ABNEGATION
    Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
  • SELF-DENIAL
    The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.

 

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