| 释义 |
‖ démenti|demɑ̃ti|
[Fr., f. démentir to give the lie.]
= dementie. In modern use applied esp. to an official contradiction of a published statement. Also (nonce-wd.) † dementir = dement v.2
1698Vanbrugh Prov. Wife i. ii, The very looking-glass gives her the démenti. 1707Ld. Raby in Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 42 As for his Person, he did not dementir [sic] y⊇ Description I had of him. 1771H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 8 May, I will run no risk of having a démenti. 1883Times Dec. (Stanf.), That elaborate affectation of candour which distinguishes the official démenti. 1918A. Gray tr. R. Grelling's The Crime II. v. 228 The semi-official organ seeks to defend the reports of Pourtalès against the English démentis. 1921Contemp. Rev. Jan. 103 My information contradicts the dementis published by the Deutsche Tageszeitung. 1950M. Hay Foot of Pride vii. 209 They..waited for the Vatican to publish a démenti. |