negative (noun) — sense 4

Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto

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Example
“Upon my word, I can’t eat a morsel,” answered the lady […] There is indeed in perfect beauty a power which none almost can withstand; for my landlady, though she was not pleased at the negative given to the supper, declared she had never seen so lovely a creature.
Order number
4
Part of speech
noun

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