Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. 2. (n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction. 3. (n.) A refusal to grant; rejection of a request. 4. (n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.

Multi-Version Concordance Denial (1 Occurrence) Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they. (See NAS)