denay

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English

Noun

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
- 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
  Duke Orsino: My love can give no place, bide no denay.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

Adney, Ayden, Dayne, dynae, nayed

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