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UK
/nɪɡˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /nəˈɡeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /nəˈɡeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
- the speech act of negating
- a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
How To Use negation In A Sentence
- She was denounced in media outlets close to the government as a "negationist" of the genocide. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
- These three writers can be viewed along a continuum of historical reckoning and self-identification, from complete self-negation and self-hatred, to a more holistic historical reckoning and ancestral identification.
- The life of an evil man is a moral negation.
- This self-abnegation from letters of the 1970s should be taken as sincere. The Times Literary Supplement
- AAVE is like Finnish in that it has a separate copular verb of negation meaning ‘not be’, pronounced ain't, and you need that here.
- At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
- Moreover, Llewellyn's almost complete abnegation of issues of style, iconography, authorship, or artistic quality results in a rather restricted view of the monuments as mere historical objects, as products of an industry.
- We enjoy the abnegation of responsibility that comes with a terse command. Times, Sunday Times
- If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- The life of an evil man is a moral negation.