deny

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Meaning

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.

To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.

To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

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Sacred Tradition is the very Church; without the Sacred Tradition the Church does not exist. Those who deny the Sacred Tradition deny the Church and the preaching of the Apostles . Nectarios of Aegina

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good. Basil of Caesarea

I deny that I ever said actors are cattle. What I said was, "Actors should be treated like cattle." Alfred Hitchcock

To deny everything is to confess everything. Spanish Proverb

Whosoever chooses to deny their past can not expect to find a future. Hungarian Proverb

No matter how big a child is, he cannot deny that he was once carried on the back of a woman. African Proverb

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