negative
adjective
expressing or containing negation or denial.
negativing
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present participleof negative.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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He said he could not tolerate the ordinary gravestone, which always looked, to him, as if the wind might blow it over, thus negativing the idea of solidity.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
Surely, too, the accidental element may play its part in Nature without negativing design in the theists view.
From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
It is supposed that the King, when he wrote the note negativing the coalition, either depended on Pitt, or meant by that means to force him.
From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
They had Grove's Dictionary as a starter, and by carefully negativing every date and fact printed in it, they were sure to hit the truth somewhere.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker
It is the Nabob himself, negativing all these pretences.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
