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▪ I. denying, vbl. n.|dɪˈnaɪɪŋ|
[f. deny v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb deny; denial, refusal, abnegation.
c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. ix, No better remedie þan pacience & denyeng of myself in þe wille of god. 1483Cath. Angl. 95 A Deniynge, abdicacio..abnegacio..negacio. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cci. [cxcvii.] 613 There demaundes and denyenges were longe a debatyng. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 90 He sent me the denaying. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. (1818) I. 184 There are falsehoods which are not lies..as..a servant's denying his master. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Montaigne Wks. (Bohn) I. 340 Not at all of universal denying, nor of universal doubting.
▪ II. deˈnying, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That denies.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 117 He was accounted sparing, giving rather than denying. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 190 The controversial and denying humour.
Hence deˈnyingly adv., in a way that denies or refuses.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 51 May shakes her graceful head denyingly. 1859Tennyson Vivien 336 How hard you look and how denyingly! |