Read full poem →Her private orchards, wall'd on every side,
To lawless sylvans all access denied. 20
How oft the satyrs and the wanton fauns,
Dictionary Entry
To refuse to give something or allow something to happen.
In a Sentence
“The request for a loan was denied because the applicant did not meet the credit requirements.”
Origin
From Middle English 'denyen', from Old French 'denier', from Latin 'denegare' meaning 'to deny, refuse'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “denied”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Perceived a colder and a harder breast, 50
And found the springs, that ne'er till then denied
Their milky moisture, on a sudden dried.
Read full poem →These swell their prospects, and exalt their pride,
When offers are disdain'd, and love denied;
Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain,
Read full poem →Or impious discontent,
At aught Thy wisdom has denied,
Or aught Thy goodness lent.
Read full poem →With musty dull rules,
Have reading to females denied:
So Papists refuse
Read full poem →that loving, yet you deny me entrance everywhere. Would marriage
strike you blind, or, hating bonds as you do, why should I be denied
the rights of loving if I leave you free? You want the whole of me,
Read full poem →Is scarcely able to melt patches wide
About the single rose bush. All denied
Of nature's tender ministries. But no, --
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Read full poem →On food which does the present craving stay,
But may be clean-denied me e’en to-day,
And tho’ ’twere certain, yet were ought but bread;
Read full poem →And pass your hand about your brow; but still
Held out, denied not God, acknowledged still
Those glories that were gone. No, I never