Definition of Deny

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Definition of Deny

Deny

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.

To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.

To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

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Deny Quotations

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mohandas Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mohandas Gandhi

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Deny Translations

deny in Dutch is ontkennen
deny in German is leugnen, verweigern, verweigern
deny in Italian is negare, abnegare
deny in Latin is denego
deny in Portuguese is negue
deny in Spanish is negar, desmentir, desnegar

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