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De*ni"al (?), n. [See Deny.] 1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.

You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.

3. A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.

The commissioners, . . . to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials.

Hallam.

4. A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.

Denial of one's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self- denial.

De*ni"ance (?), n. Denial. [Obs.] E. Hall.

De*ni"er (?), n. One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.

||De*nier" (?), n. [F. denier, fr. L. denarius a Roman silver coin orig. equiv. to ten asses, later, a copper, fr. deni ten by ten, fr. the root of decem ten; akin to E. ten. See Ten, and cf. Denary, Dinar.] A small copper coin of insignificant value.

My dukedom to a beggarly denier.

Shak.

Den"i*grate (?), v. t. [L. denigrare; de- + nigrare to blacken, niger black.] 1. To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. Boyle.

2. Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.]

To denigrate the memory of Voltaire.

Morley.

Den`i*gra"tion (?), n. [L. denigratio.] 1. The act of making black. Boyle.

2. Fig.: A blackening; defamation.

The vigorous denigration of science.

Morley.

Den"i*gra`tor (?), n. One who, or that which, blackens.

Den"im (dn"m), n. [Of uncertain origin.] A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

Den`i*tra"tion (?), n. [Pref. de- + nitrate.] A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.

De*ni`tri*fi*ca"tion (?), n. The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.

De*ni"tri*fy (?), v. t. [Pref. de- + nitrogen + -fy.] To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.

Den`i*za"tion (?), n. The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam.