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Definition: DENYING |
DENYINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Deny |
Date "DENYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Negation | Adjective: denying;Verb: denied;Verb: contradictory; negative, negatory; recusant; (dissenting); at issue upon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DENYING |
| English words defined with "DENYING": Abnegative, affirmative pleading, allegation, allegement, Anabaptist denomination, Atheous ♦ Contraposition ♦ defence, defense, demurrer, denial, determinism, disbelieving ♦ estoppel ♦ It is no nay ♦ Modalist ♦ pass, Paulianist, plead ♦ Recusative ♦ sceptical, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, Semi-Pelagian, skeptical ♦ To be acknown ♦ unbelieving. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DENYING": ABRUSSI, Abstainer, APPEALS REFEREE ♦ counter command, control and communications ♦ ECONOMY ♦ lock-out, Lord ♦ network management ♦ soul. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I wouldn't dream of denying you the opportunity! (The Big Valley; writing credit: Jean-Claude Carrière) Are you denying the snazzy of that? (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) You were just denying your inner child. (The Santa Clause; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) | |
Lyrics | What's the use in you denying (More Than That; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) I'm a winner there's no denying (THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT; performing artist: Barbra Streisand) You've been denying you could ever feel (An Innocent Man; performing artist: Billy Joel) In my life, there's no denying (Everyday; performing artist: Bon Jovi) There's something wrong here, there can be no denying ("It's Too Late"; performing artist: Carole King) | |
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John Foster | The atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation -- a condemner of God who explodes his laws by denying his existence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief in denying them. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | There was no denying that those brothers had penetration. |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Alice felt there was no denying that. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had persisted in denying everything, both the theft and the fact that he had been a convict. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt and fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If "contact" sports should be avoided because the child's platelet count is low, you will want to see that he avoids them. But if there is no reason not to go skateboarding or participate in sports, denying this may be overprotection on your part at a time when your child should be enjoying normal activities. (references) | |
Business | Beginning in 1993, the Ministry of Labor stopped officially denying the existence of strikes. (references) | |
While denying that any individuals had been illegally detained, the Government has offered to investigate reports of disappearances. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | This provision enables the Government to ban any group simply by denying its registration petition. (references) |
Cuba | Government efforts to undermine dissidents included denying them advanced education and professional opportunities. (references) | |
Papua New Guinea | The process of registration may be slowed by bureaucratic inefficiency, but there is no policy of denying registration. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | In theory, the government can limit competition with state-owned companies by denying private firms the required licenses to operate. (references) |
Zambia | Improvements include revoking licenses of insolvent banks, denying bailouts, limiting deposit protection, strengthening loan recovery efforts, and upgrading the training and incentives of bank supervisors. (references) | |
Cyprus | These two laws have helped Cyprus comply with its obligations under the WTO TRIPs agreement and also to remain off the U.S. "Special 301" list of countries effectively denying adequate IPR protection to U.S. persons. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that police often called a detainee's lawyer as a witness, thereby denying him access to his client. (references) |
Turkey | After initially denying that the two had been detained, the Jandarma admitted they had been in the station but that they had left after half an hour. (references) | |
Botswana | Constitutional protections are not applied to illegal immigrants, although the constitutionality of denying them due process has not been tested in court. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | Since 1999 there have been no reports of schools denying children the right to wear traditional indigenous dress, a common complaint under the previous administration. (references) |
Japan | Under an 1899 law, the Government pursued a policy of forced assimilation, imposing mandatory Japanese-language education and denying the Ainu their right to continue traditional practices. (references) | |
Minorities | Poland | In April 2000, Opole University fired professor Dariusz Ratajczak for publishing a book denying the Holocaust. (references) |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | However, Podkrepa has complained that a 1998 law denying workers the right to appeal government decisions on the legality of strikes is unconstitutional and violates an ILO convention. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Despite the campaign of terror, the MDC won 57 of 120 contested seats in Parliament in the June 2000 elections, denying ZANU-PF the two-thirds majority necessary to amend the constitution and subsequently subjecting the Government to scrutiny to which it was unaccustomed. (references) | |
SPAIN | In September 1999, in a trademark case in which a well-known U.S. apparel manufacturer complained about infringement of its brand name, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down a decision denying it the right to continue marketing its products under its trademark name in Spain. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Taiwan | However, in 1998 foreign domestic workers were exempted from the LSL, denying them the right to safeguards provided to citizens. (references) |
Ethiopia | Reports of abuse decreased after the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs began reviewing the contracts of prospective domestic workers and denying exit visas if the contracts did not appear satisfactory. (references) | |
Kuwait | The Labor Law discriminates against foreign workers by denying them voting rights and by permitting them to join unions only after 5 years of residence, although the KTUF states that this requirement is not enforced. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. Said a man to a crapulent youth: "I thought You a total abstainer, my son." "So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught -- "But not, sir, a bigoted one." G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | We're so used to people denying their guilt, that when we hear somebody actually take responsibility for their actions, we get that confused look on our face people always have when their cat starts dry humping a Great Dane. |
Rush Limbaugh | Daschle is denying you farmers and ranchers disaster relief just like he's denying you seasoned citizens a prescription drug bill just so he can blame Bush for it. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | The time for denying, deceiving, and delaying has come to an end. |
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| "DENYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.20% of the time. "DENYING" is used about 625 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 99.2% | 620 | 10,430 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.48% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.32% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 625 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DENYING": self denying. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DENYING": life-denying, reality-denying, renunciant renunciative self-abnegating self-denying, self-denying. | |
Containing "DENYING": self-denying person. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
denying | 8 |
austere belief denying in life living self very | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DENYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منكر الذات (self denying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | себеотрицателен (renunciative, renunciatory, self denying, self-forgetful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 否认 (Abnegation, Denial, Denied, Deny, Disavow, Disavowed, Disavowing, Disclaim, Disclaimed, Disclaiming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | niant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | leugnend (denyingly, gainsaying), abweisend (cool, repelling, repulsing, unsympathetic), aberkennend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ολιγαρκήσ (frugal, self denying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מת זר (abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, self denying), פרוש (abstemious, abstinent, chaste, commentary, construction, exegesis, explanation, interpretation, reading, seclusive, self denying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | igénytelen (austere, devoid of all pretence, frugal, modest, self-denying, unassuming, undemanding, unpretending), ez kétségbevonhatatlan (there's no denying), önmegtartóztató (abstinent, austere, continent, self denying, self-denying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 부 (Denial, INJUSTICE, Negation, Negative, no, wrong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | obballagh (denier, forbidding, negative, negativist, refutable, self-denying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enyingday tãgãduire (denial, disavowal, disclaimer, negation), negare (denial, disavowal, disclaimer, negation, refutation). (various references) icheadh (contradicting, deny, renouncing). (various references) abnegado (self denying, selfless, unselfish). (various references) förnekande (abnegation, denial, disavowal, disclamation, negation, renunciation, repudiation). (various references) kendini tutan (self denying), fedakâr (devoted, self denying, self-forgetful, self-sacrificing, unselfish), özverili (devoted, self denying, selfless, self-sacrificing, unselfish). (various references) який жертву" своїми інтересами (self denying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | EconteV morfwsin eusebeiaV thn de dunamin authV hrnhmenoi kai toutouV apotrepou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Habentes speciem quidem pietatis virtutem autem eius abnegantes et hos devita |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Hauynge the licknesse of pitee, but denyynge the vertu of it. And eschewe thou these men. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Havynge a similitude of godly lyvynge but have denyed the power ther of and soche abhorre. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from such turn away. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these. |
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| Language | 2 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | nga nagabaton sa dagway sa tinoohan apan nagapanghimakak sa gahum niini. Likayi kining maong mga tawhana. |
| Croatian | Imaju oblièje pobožnosti, ali snage su se njezine odrekli. I njih se kloni! |
| Danish | som have Gudfrygtigheds Skin, men have fornægtet dens Kraft. Og fra disse skal du vende dig bort! |
| Dutch | Hebbende een gedaante van godzaligheid, maar die de kracht derzelve verloochend hebben. Heb ook een afkeer van deze. |
| Finnish | heissä on jumalisuuden ulkokuori, mutta he kieltävät sen voiman. Senkaltaisia karta. |
| French | ayant l`apparence de la piété, mais reniant ce qui en fait la force. Éloigne-toi de ces hommes-l . |
| German | die da haben den Schein eines gottseligen Wesens, aber seine Kraft verleugnen sie; und solche meide. |
| Haitian Creole | Y'ap fè tankou y'ap sèvi Bondye. Men, yo pa kwè nan pouvwa Bondye a tout bon vre. Pa mele ak moun konsa menm. |
| Hungarian | Kiknél megvan a kegyességnek látszata, de megtagadják annak erejét. És ezeket kerüld. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Meskipun secara lahir, mereka taat menjalankan kewajiban agama, namun menolak inti dari agama itu sendiri. Jauhilah orang-orang yang seperti itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | yang merupakan dirinya seperti orang beribadat, tetapi kuasa ibadat itu telah ditolakkannya, maka daripada orang itu palingkanlah dirimu. |
| Italian | con la parvenza della piet , mentre ne hanno rinnegata la forza interiore. Guardati bene da costoro! |
| Latvian | Ârçji liekuïodami dievbijîbu, bet tâs spçku noliegdami. Arî no tâdiem izvairies! |
| Maori | Ko te ahua o te karakia kei a ratou, tona kaha ia whakakahoretia iho: tahuri ke koe i nga tangata pera. |
| Norwegian | som har gudfryktighets skinn, men fornekter dens kraft - og disse skal du vende dig fra. |
| Portuguese | tendo aparência de piedade, mas negando-lhe o poder. Afasta- te também desses. |
| Rumanian | avknd doar o formq de evlavie dar tqgqduindu -i puterea. Depqrteazq-te de oamenii acewtia. |
| Russian | ЙНЕАЭЙЕ ЧЙ" 'МБЗПЮЕУФЙС, УЙМЩ ЦЕ ЕЗП ПФТЕЛЫЙЕУС. фБЛПЧЩИ Х"БМСКУС. |
| Shuar | Yusa kakarmari "ántraiti" Tuíniak pénker umirkachartatui. Túrasha Yúsan umirua Núnisar Túrawartatui. Nu shuar penké Pachisáip. |
| Spanish | Tendrán apariencia de piedad, pero negarán su eficacia. A éstos evita. |
| Swahili | Kwa nje wataonekana kama watu wenye kumcha Mungu, lakini wataikana nguvu yake. Jiepushe kabisa na watu wa namna hiyo. |
| Uma | Ane gau' to rahilo doo, mpotuku' moto-ra ada agama hewa tauna to mengkoru hi Alata'ala. Tapi' kuasa Alata'ala to ma'ala mpobalii' nono-ra, rasapuaka lau-wadi-rana. Neo' nuposigalo-raka tauna to hewa toe gau' -ra. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DENYING": denyingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DENYING": redenying. (additional references) | |
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"DENYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dandying, delying, dencing, denieing, Denikin, dening, denking, Dennings, denving, denyin, Denzin, dieying, dinkying, diy-ing, Dubynin, heyning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DENYING" (pronounced dunī"ing) |
| 3 | -ī" i ng | applying, belying, buying, complying, crying, decrying, defying, drying, dyeing, dying, eyeing, flying, frying, implying, indemnifying, lying, misapplying, overflying, overlying, plying, prying, relying, replying, retrying, semidrying, shying, sighing, spying, supplying, tieing, trying, tying, underlying, undying, vying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-n-y" | |
-1 letter: dingey, dyeing, dynein, ending, ginned. | |
-2 letters: deign, dinge, dingy, dying, eying, ginny, inned. | |
-3 letters: deni, deny, dine, ding, dyne, edgy, gied, gien, nide, nine. | |
-4 letters: den, dey, die, dig, din, dye, end, eng, ged, gen, gey, gid, gie, gin, inn, yen, yid, yin. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, en, id, in, ne, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-n-y" | |
+2 letters: bendaying, denyingly, hoydening, redenying. | |
+3 letters: densifying, enduringly, gynandries, underlying, unedifying, unendingly, unyielding. | |
+4 letters: androgynies, cylindering, deadeningly, deafeningly, demandingly, denazifying, endearingly, identifying, indulgently, ingrainedly, maddeningly, underbuying, underlaying, underpaying, unfeignedly, unsteadying. | |
+5 letters: blunderingly, denitrifying, discerningly, heterodyning, indemnifying, indigenously, resoundingly, thunderingly, typefounding, underlyingly, underplaying, unyieldingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4E 59 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -. -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001110 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E N Y I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004E 0059 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38394859434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Bible Trace 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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