denier

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  1. noun One that denies: a denier of harsh realities.
  2. noun A unit of fineness for rayon, nylon, and silk fibers, based on a standard mass per length of 1 gram per 9,000 meters of yarn.
  3. noun A small coin of varying composition and value current in western Europe from the eighth century until the French Revolution.

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  • But at the end God comes out as a climate change denier, the flood local rather than global and the result of reassuringly litigable individual misconduct, not even an act of God—so that even the responsibility for permitting the climactic New Orleans event in the heart of DC lies with a single bad-apple, corner-cutting concreteer, rather than (for example) with vehicle owners, energy consumers, and the throttlehold of the oil industry over public policy. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#212
  • Funnily enough the term denier is not a scientific one, it is one used in normal discourse to describe what could probably be whipped up into a phsychological diagnosis. —  RealClimate
  • There is a difference between a skeptic and a denier, a skeptic does not play rhetorical games nor plays statistical tricks. —  RealClimate
  • German Pope "rehabilitates" Holocaust denier, then (as we learned this week) promotes a bishop who thinks Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for immorality in New Orleans. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • And when one of these bishops proved to be not just an anti-Semite but a Holocaust-denier, the first question for many was, how much did the pope know about the bishop's taste for revisionist history and when did he know it? —  Commonweal Magazine
 

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  1. Middle English denere, a coin, from Old French dener, from Latin dēnārius; see denarius.

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  1. from deny + -er.
  2. Early modern English also deneer, deneere; from Old French denier, French denier, a denier, denarius, money, = Spanish Portuguese Italian denario, from Latin denarius: see denarius.
 

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