1to deny, repudiate:
(
s.xii1;
MS: 1155-60
)
Ki hairent le Seignur
deneaient (Latin: negabant) lui
Camb Ps 151.LXXX.14
(
s.xii4/4;
MS: s.xii4/4
)
mult me merveil [...] Que tu nostre Deu si
denies
S Cath barking 893
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
si le tenaunt rien desdie, ou
denye le demaunde le pleintif [...]
BRITT ii 95
(
s.xiv1;
MS: c.1361
)
Si ount il Moisen le quel il desnierent
(Latin: negaverunt)
Actes (A) 365a
(
1383
)
le dit J. regardant les dites chartre et lettre les ad outrément refusez et
deniez, disant qe unqes ne les vist devant cest jour
King’s Council ss 74
2to deny, refuse, withhold:
(
c.1240;
MS: c.1300
)
Kar tant vus aime & honoure Ke il ne vus
deneie ren
Mir N-D 258.129
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
le prestre ne deit
denier A nul […] Ki demande cunfessiun Ke n’eit reconciliaciun
Lum Lais ANTS 10122
(
1292-93
)
e demaunda de meme sele Ysolde [...] entré [...] et ele le
deneya entré
Sel Bills Eyre 53
(
1317
)
[...] et nous rendy soun estat, le quel rendre ne ly purroms
deneyer
YBB Ed II xxii 47
(
c.1334;
MS: s.xivm
)
dunqe savoit ele bien qe l’emperour ne lui
denieroit (var. (A: c.1375) deneiroit) pas sa demande
TREVET Cron1 220.28-29
3lawto prevent, forbid, refuse to allow:
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: c.1300
)
lessez moi entrer, ne me
deneiez (or
(l. deveiez?) mie
Boeve 269
(
MS: s.xiii3/3
)
vus estes attachee a respondre en ceste cort pur ceo que vos
deniastes prendre
(=to be taken) vostre naam pur la dette que vos devez a J.
Court Bar (S) 60
(
1292
)
R. vint la a destreindre. E. ly
denya; e issi est yl disseisi
YBB 20-21 Ed I 19
to deny, withdraw:
(
s.xiiex;
MS: c.1335
)
Moult bien me deffenderay Devant qe jeo
denieray
Amis ANTS 384
(
a.1399;
MS: a.1399
)
(the youth replied that) ceo q’il avoit dist fuist veritee et ne vodroit
denyer
Anon Chr1 148.16
to refuse:
(
s.xiv
)
Si nul d’eux
denie ou soit trové trois foitz aler contre les ordinances [...]
Bristol Red Bk ii 41
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