jan 1, 1607 - deny

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To refuse. 1607 <i>Edm. Grame for denying to lend his horse to carry a prisoner to Yorke Castle</i>, Helmsley (NRQS1/87); 1692 <i>being in bed he denyed to aid or assist him</i>, Hellifield (QS1). It had the meaning of ‘betray’ in the following example: 1674 <i>I durst not denye my office, in which I have carried my selfe as wareingly</i> [carefully] <i>as possible a man can do</i>, Golcar (QS1). In 1647 Adam Eyre wrote that <i>Bramall wife denyed a brasse shilling which shee gave mee the last tyme I was there</i>, that is denied having given him the shilling, Thurlstone (SS65/54). See liver.

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