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- noun A denial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Denial.
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- noun obsolete Denial.
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- noun obsolete A
denial .
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Examples
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The election of Obama also offers, many believe, a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare that has killed and injured many Americans, and an unknown amount of Iraqi citizens; tacitly accepting torture, permitting a denegation of our civil rights, and through rampant deregulation allowing economic devastation which has ripped the entire fabric of the economy.
Paula B. Mays: Ebenezer Scrooge - Hope, Redemption and the 2008 Election 2010
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The election of Obama also offers, many believe, a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare that has killed and injured many Americans, and an unknown amount of Iraqi citizens; tacitly accepting torture, permitting a denegation of our civil rights, and through rampant deregulation allowing economic devastation which has ripped the entire fabric of the economy.
Ebenezer Scrooge - Hope, Redemption and the 2008 Election Paula B. Mays 2010
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There is evidence here of a denegation, a strong disavowal of the body in its inert, contemplative and
Hegel on Buddhism 2007
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The election of Obama also offers, many believe, a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare that has killed and injured many Americans, and an unknown amount of Iraqi citizens; tacitly accepting torture, permitting a denegation of our civil rights, and through rampant deregulation allowing economic devastation which has ripped the entire fabric of the economy.
Paula B. Mays: Ebenezer Scrooge - Hope, Redemption and the 2008 Election 2009
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My experience with Christians during the last several months seems to best sum up this particular western idea that oppresses newly disabled or people with continuing denegation into a choice of having two lives; one in which you are optimistic and happy to others while the bulk of your struggles become a secret life; or share all aspects of your life and face rejection.
Archive 2007-05-01 Elizabeth McClung 2007
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My experience with Christians during the last several months seems to best sum up this particular western idea that oppresses newly disabled or people with continuing denegation into a choice of having two lives; one in which you are optimistic and happy to others while the bulk of your struggles become a secret life; or share all aspects of your life and face rejection.
Blogging against Disablism: those lazy, deceiving disabled..why won't they die? Elizabeth McClung 2007
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I sought to interrupt him with some not very truthful denegation; but he waved me down, and pursued his speech.
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Urquhart that in consequence of such denegation he will demonstrate that Palmerston had everything to do with it.
The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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Thus, although Greenberg champions avant-garde abstract artists, his is not the more rational avant-garde aesthetic of, for example, the Soviet Constructivists (e.g. Malevich, Popova, Rodchenko and Rozanova), or that of Mondrian, but a mystical one that suited his denegation of exact knowledge better.
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But, as Althusser said, bourgeois philosophy "lives by its denegation," the promise of an objective knowledge of what philosophy is, as a practice, which is offered by Marxism, is always denegated, or disavowed, by bourgeois philosophers, who assert that such knowledge is impossible.
jeffazi commented on the word denegation
denial
Example sentence: The defendant’s actions led to the denegation of the plaintiff's rights as a citizen.�?
November 14, 2007