denay

plural denays

1. obsoletedenial; refusal

   Duke Orsino: My love can give no place, bide no denay.

   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, [Act II, scene iv]

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   Forget not yet the gret aſſays the cruell wrong the ſkornfull ways the paynfull pacyence in denays […]

   a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Forget not yet the tryde entent” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 54 verso

present singular third person denays · participle present denaying · participle past denayed · past denayed

1. obsoletetransitiveTo deny, refuse.

   That with great rage he stoutly doth denay.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15

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   Preserve this babe, whose mother must denay / To nourish it, preserve this harmless child.

   1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxvii