Read full poem →She safe by favour of her judge doth rest.
Though himself see, he'll credit her denial,
Condemn his eyes, and say there is no trial.
Dictionary Entry
The act of refusing to admit the truth or existence of something, often as a way to avoid facing unpleasant facts.
In a Sentence
“Despite the evidence, his persistent denial of any wrongdoing surprised everyone.”
Origin
From Old French 'denier' (to deny), from Latin 'denegare'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “denial”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Just like a punching bag will stand your whacks
Of hatred and denial, let you punch
Almost at will. But sometime, like the bag,
Read full poem →"You mock me with denial,
You mean to call me hard?
Read full poem →By weaker women in captivity?
Ah, vain denial! that revolted cry
Is sobbed in by a woman's voice forlorn,-
Read full poem →You’ll never miss it from your ample store.
Who gives denial--harden’d, hungry hound,--
May never blessings crowd his hated door!
Read full poem →decency and order, a total disregard of every moral, and a resolute
denial of every religious obligation, he lived worthless and useless, and
blazed out his youth and his health in lavish voluptuousness, till, at
Read full poem →But, from a rule I have {upon long trial),
Tavoid with care all sort of self-denial.
Which way soe'er desire and fancy lead,
Read full poem →Eventually, then, he screamed,
Mad in denial,
"Ah, there is no God!"
Read full poem →All furtherance of fugitives, and of the escape of slaves,
All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of
the
Read full poem →For "precepts over dignified,"
Denial and restraint I prize
No farther than they breed a second Will more wise.