denay

English

Noun

denay (plural denays)

(obsolete) denial; refusal
- c.1600, Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
  Duke Orsino: My love can give no place, bide no denay.
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
  Forget not yet the great assays,
  The cruel wrong, the scornful ways,
  The painful patience in denays […]

Verb

denay (third-person singular simple present denays, present participle denaying, simple past and past participle denayed)

(obsolete, transitive) To deny, refuse.
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
  That with great rage he stoutly doth denay.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxvii:
  Preserve this babe, whose mother must denay / To nourish it, preserve this harmless child.

Anagrams

Adney, Ayden, dynae, nayed

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.