negativingn.
/ˈnɛɡətɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnɛɡədɪvɪŋ/ Now chiefly Philosophy.
Rejection, denial, contradiction.
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the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [noun]
andsechOE
nitea1400
nyingc1429
naying1430
negationc1450
contradiction1526
deny1535
nay-saying1535
deniance1548
denial1576
infringement1593
nay-saya1598
negativing1777
denying1785
denegation1831
1777 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 194 He had persisted..I could never have consented, however pained by perpetual negativing.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) vii. viii. 417 Your weighty men, though slow to devise, being always great at ‘negativing’.
1854 M. Evans tr. L. Feuerbach Essence Christianity xxii. 213 This negativing of limits by the imagination is the positing of omniscience as a divine power and reality.
1877 Mind 2 69 This negativing by idealism of a self-verifying deliverance.
1956 Philos. Q. 6 250 Human existence is an active negativing..of being-in-itself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
negativingadj.
/ˈnɛɡətɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnɛɡədɪvɪŋ/ rare.
That rejects or contradicts. (In quot. 1776 designating a political body that has the power of veto.)
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective]
refusing1409
negative1576
declining1639
declinatory1673
ungiving1682
negativing1776
disavowing1828
society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > vetoing > having power of veto
negative1648
negativing1776
tribunitian1783
1776 in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 657 A negativing body over those that form the laws.
1816 E. S. Barrett Talents run Mad iii. 63 (note) He would shake his negativing head, and say, ‘Certainly not.’
1895 I. Zangwill Master 430 He saw her as in her later guise, stern, sorrowful, negativing.
1914 N.E.D. at Sublative a. Annulling, negativing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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