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Denier

noun
1.
A unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon.
2.
Any of various former European coins of different denominations.
3.
One who denies.






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"Denier" Quotes from Famous Books



... How? Poore? Looke vpon his Face: What call you Rich? Let them coyne his Nose, let them coyne his Cheekes, Ile not pay a Denier. What, will you make a Younker of me? Shall I not take mine ease in mine Inne, but I shall haue my Pocket pick'd? I haue lost a Seale-Ring of ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... purse. In 1478 each leper was obliged to bring with him (among other things), a bed with its sheets, all his body-linen and towels, his cooking pots and table ware, and various articles of clothing, besides 62 sous 1 denier for the prior, 5 sous for the servants,[21] and three "hanaps" or drinking vessels, one of silver. Evidently all this was not what a poor patient could often afford, and we find, without surprise, the parish St. John objecting to the rule in case of ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... humility, chastity, poverty, in a word, holiness, had not already done much more damage to life than all imaginable horrors and vices.... The pure soul is a pure lie.... So long as the priest, that professional denier, calumniator and poisoner of life, is accepted as a higher variety of man, there can be no answer to the question, What is truth? Truth has already been stood on its head when the obvious attorney of mere emptiness ...
— The Antichrist • F. W. Nietzsche



Words linked to "Denier" :   disputant, controversialist, unit, deny, eristic, unit of measurement, coin



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