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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.

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                        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
                        7
                        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...
                        16
                        Was it possible that I was, in the modern term, in denial?
                        Atonement
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