denay

English

Noun

denay (plural denays)

1. (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)

1. (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