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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of deny

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deny + -est

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Examples

  • For this thy mockery be sure Dionysus will exact a recompense of thee-even the god whose existence thou deniest; for thou art injuring him by haling me to prison.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • And withal thou deniest the sale and belittlest and makest difficulties about the profit!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For this thy mockery be sure Dionysus will exact a recompense of thee-even the god whose existence thou deniest; for thou art injuring him by haling me to prison.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • A combat of words requires over-long continuance; for I maintaine the matter which thou deniest, and all this sorts to nothing in the end.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Thereupon the Virgin Mary appeared to her in the night when she lay in her bed alone, and said, “If thou wilt tell the truth and confess that thou didst unlock the forbidden door, I will open thy mouth and give thee back thy speech, but if thou perseverest in thy sin, and deniest obstinately, I will take thy new-born child away with me.”

    Household Tales 2003

  • When a year had gone by the Queen again bore a son, and in the night the Virgin Mary again came to her, and said, “If thou wilt confess that thou openedst the forbidden door, I will give thee thy child back and untie thy tongue; but if you continuest in sin and deniest it, I will take away with me this new child also.”

    Household Tales 2003

  • However, this is the proper work of the law, to discover sin in the guilt of it, to awake and humble the soul for it, to be a glass to represent sin in its colours; and if thou deniest to deal with it on this account, it is not through faith, but through the hardness of thy heart and the deceitfulness of sin.

    Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

  • And he said: I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, till thou thrice deniest that thou knowest me.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • Thou hast slain her, and deniest it, and speakest these things to insult me.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • First, because thou deniest that redemption was wrought out for sinners by the man

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

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