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Meanings of denial in English

Portuguese
abnegação
Catalan
renúncia

Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.

abnegação
Catalan
defensa

A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him.

defensa
Portuguese
negação
Catalan
negativa

The act of asserting that something alleged is not true.

negação
Russian
отрицание
Spanish
negacion

Rejecting a fact despite the overwhelming evidence of its truth based on fear of its outcome.

Related terms
отрицание
Usage of denial in English
1
However, denial of immunity doesn't necessarily mean a certain loss for police.
Reuters
2
Outright denial of climate science is becoming an increasingly difficult political position.
Reuters
3
North Korea repeated its denial of such speculation in the new statement.
The Guardian
4
OK, much of Greece's political class was in a state of denial.
The Guardian
5
Penalties include seizure of assets, visa bans and denial of government contracts.
Reuters
6
Instead he had chosen exhausting labor and stern self-denial in the wilds.
The Lure of the North
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Capital represents the self-denial, the providence, and the enterprise of the past.
Thrift
8
This is commonly denied; and in a sense the denial is true.
Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the...
9
Hillary wasn't in complete denial about the perils of the situation, however.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
10
But if organised recklessly, they amount to a denial of representative democracy.
The Guardian
11
What possible response could he give to a willful denial of reason?
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
12
Names have been changed to protect the innocent, and those in denial.
The Irish Times
13
Climate change denial in the Trump cabinet: where do his nominees stand?
The Guardian
14
Bonnie had been prepared for denial, anger, or even a physical response.
The witch of agnesi
15
And then the toil and self-denial for the stocking and the tree
The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
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Was it possible that I was, in the modern term, in denial?
Atonement
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Denial through the time
Denial across language varieties
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Common
United Kingdom
Common
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Common
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