Definition of deny

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Deny (v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request..

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Disavow :: Disavow (v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
Protest :: Protest (v. t.) To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to..
Naturalism :: Naturalism (n.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will..
Forsay :: Forsay (v. t.) To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.
Implicitly :: Implicitly (adv.) By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of God is implicitly to deny his existence..
Disavow :: Disavow (v. t.) To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime..
Self-denying :: Self-denying (a.) Refusing to gratify one's self; self-sacrificing.
Reneye :: Reneye (v. t.) To deny; to reject; to renounce.
Negation :: Negation (adv.) The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation..
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception..
Renege :: Renege (v. t.) To deny; to disown.
Semi-pelagian :: Semi-Pelagian (n.) A follower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448), who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, and maintaining the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints..
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a)..
Jansenist :: "Jansenist (n.) A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace..
Contradict :: Contradict (v. t.) To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn..
Disacknowledge :: Disacknowledge (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.
Blench :: Blench (v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.
Withsay :: Withsay (v. t.) To contradict; to gainsay; to deny; to renounce.
Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny.
Contraposition :: Contraposition (n.) A so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e.g.: Every S is P; therefore, no Not-P is S..
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