negativing
- present participle of negative.
Example Sentences
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Now if we are convinced that evil in ourselves has no power unless we give it power, that is the first step toward making our efforts positive and so negativing the evil.
From Nerves and Common Sense by Call, Annie Payson
We satisfy ourselves with negativing in the Deity everything that constitutes existence, so far as we are capable of conceiving of existence.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
Surely, too, the accidental element may play its part in Nature without negativing design in the theists view.
From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry
That is passing by this Convention altogether; it is negativing the States represented in it.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
“No!” came in a roar from up above, every man, in his excitement, negativing the proposal.
From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by Boucher, W.
