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Definition of Denying
1. deny [v] - See also: deny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Denying
Literary usage of Denying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"To this petition the United States filed an answer, denying the claim of the
petitioners; admitting the appointment of the receiver, and his taking ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1907)
"... for the creation of Osi "Mew Model* army named the Commons <n, January 11,
two days before the Lords rejected the Self-denying 'lance. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"Or a discovery of their Ignorance, in denying liberty to tender consciences in
religious worship, to be granted alike to all,' London, 1649, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"Since a decree denying divorce for desertion, either a vinculo or a mensa,
necessarily determined that defendant had not at any time prior to the ..."
5. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Take heed of speaking of Christ in words, and denying him in life and power.
O friends, the imprisoning my body is to satisfy your wills; but take heed of ..."
6. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"To all the seed of Abraham, who suffer for denying the world's customs, ...
For as the apostles and true christians suffered for denying the Jewish temple, ..."
7. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"It has been followed by ' A Self-denying Ordinance,'' M'Leod of the Camerons ...
From ' A Self-denying Ordinance.' " Well," said Joanna, " I said those bees ..."
8. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"Notwithstanding these arguments, a committee was appointed to frame what was
called the Self-denying Ordinance ; by which the members of both houses were ..."
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