Word Meanings - DENIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth

Additional info about word: DENIAL

1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction. 3. A refusal to grant; rejection of a request. The commissioners, . . . to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials. Hallam. 4. A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God. Denial of one's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DENIAL)

• Abnegation
• Denial
• disallowance
• renunciation
• abjuration
• stint
• abstinence

Related words: (words related to DENIAL)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• RENUNCIATION
  Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.
• STINTEDNESS
  The state of being stinted.
• DENIAL
  1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
• ABNEGATION
  a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.
• DISALLOWANCE
  The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection. Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection.
• ABSTINENCE
  1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
• STINT
  Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. A phalarope.
• ABJURATION
  1. The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. 2. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. Oath
• STINTER
  One who, or that which, stints.
• STINTANCE
  Restraint; stoppage.
• SELF-RENUNCIATION
  The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
• ABRENUNCIATION
  Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
• PRENUNCIATION
  The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.
• INABSTINENCE
  Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
• SELF-ABNEGATION
  Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
• SELF-DENIAL
  The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.