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denial
noun
1 denial
The act of refusing to comply (as with a request).
Dutch: nee, neen, negatie, ontkenning
2 denial
The act of asserting that something alleged is not true.
synonym: disaffirmation.
Polish: dementi
3 denial
psychiatry A defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts.
4 denial
Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.
synonyms: abnegation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation.
Roget 536:
negation,
abnegation;
denial;
disavowal,
disclaimer;
abjuration;
contradiction,
contravention;
recusation [Law],
protest;
recusancy
etc.
(dissent)
489;
flat contradiction,
emphatic contradiction,
emphatic denial,
dementi [Lat.].
qualification
etc.
469;
repudiation
etc.
610;
retraction
etc.
607;
confutation
etc.
479;
refusal
etc.
764;
prohibition
etc.
761.
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Roget 764:
refusal,
rejection;
noncompliance,
incompliance†;
denial;
declining
etc.
v.;
declension;
declinature†;
peremptory refusal,
flat refusal,
point blank refusal;
repulse,
rebuff;
discountenance.
recusancy,
abnegation,
protest,
disclaimer;
dissent
etc.
489;
revocation
etc.
756.
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Dutch: zelfopoffering, zelfverloochening, verloochening
5 denial
A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him.
synonyms: defence, defense, demurrer.
Dutch: defensie, verdediging
Polish: obrona
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