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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
denay (plural denays)
- (obsolete) denial; refusal
- a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Forget not yet the tryde entent” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 54 verso:
- Forget not yet the gret aſſays
the cruell wrong the ſkornfull ways
the paynfull pacyence in denays […]
- Forget not yet the gret aſſays
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Duke Orsino: My love can give no place, bide no denay.
- a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Forget not yet the tryde entent” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 54 verso:
Verb[edit]
denay (third-person singular simple present denays, present participle denaying, simple past and past participle denayed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deny, refuse.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:
- 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.