démentin.

Brit.

/ˌdeɪˈmɒ̃tiː/, U.S.

/ˌdeɪmɑnˈti/

Forms: 1600s– dementi, 1700s– démenti.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French démenti.

Etymology: < French démenti denial, considered as an insult (1580 in Middle French in Montaigne; 1st half of the 15th cent. in plural form desmenteys in this sense), denial, contradiction (1680), use as noun of démenti , past participle of démentir dement v.² Compare earlier dementie n.

An act or instance of contradicting something, a denial or contradiction; now spec. an official contradiction of a published statement. to give the démenti to: to give the lie to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [noun] > giving the lie

belying1574

lie1597

démenti1697

1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife i. 7 The very Looking-Glass gives her the Dementi.

1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife v. 87 'Tis going directly into the Fire of the Enemy—throwing the Dementi full in their Teeth.

1771 H. Walpole Let. 8 May (1843) II. 151 I will run no risk of having a démenti.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 104 Had you told a Frenchman so, twenty years ago, he would have thrown the démenti in your teeth.

1884 Monthly Musical Rec. Jan. 15/1 I have to give the official dementi to those lines in my last report, which spoke of an engagement of our first singers by Pollini, of Hamburg, for New York.

1918 Musical Times 59 346/1 He may have written..one or two works which..will give the démenti to some of the opinions here expressed.

1950 M. Hay Foot of Pride vii. 209 They..waited for the Vatican to publish a démenti.

2008 Irish Independent (Nexis) 2 Sept. (Business section) It is understood that the Polish Ministry of Economy received a ‘dementi’ or denial that it [sc. a company] was selling Lodz.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	démenti
释义	démentin. Brit. /ˌdeɪˈmɒ̃tiː/, U.S. /ˌdeɪmɑnˈti/ Forms: 1600s– dementi, 1700s– démenti. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French démenti. Etymology: < French démenti denial, considered as an insult (1580 in Middle French in Montaigne; 1st half of the 15th cent. in plural form desmenteys in this sense), denial, contradiction (1680), use as noun of démenti , past participle of démentir dement v.² Compare earlier dementie n. An act or instance of contradicting something, a denial or contradiction; now spec. an official contradiction of a published statement. to give the démenti to: to give the lie to. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [noun] > giving the lie belying1574 lie1597 démenti1697 1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife i. 7 The very Looking-Glass gives her the Dementi. 1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife v. 87 'Tis going directly into the Fire of the Enemy—throwing the Dementi full in their Teeth. 1771 H. Walpole Let. 8 May (1843) II. 151 I will run no risk of having a démenti. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 104 Had you told a Frenchman so, twenty years ago, he would have thrown the démenti in your teeth. 1884 Monthly Musical Rec. Jan. 15/1 I have to give the official dementi to those lines in my last report, which spoke of an engagement of our first singers by Pollini, of Hamburg, for New York. 1918 Musical Times 59 346/1 He may have written..one or two works which..will give the démenti to some of the opinions here expressed. 1950 M. Hay Foot of Pride vii. 209 They..waited for the Vatican to publish a démenti. 2008 Irish Independent (Nexis) 2 Sept. (Business section) It is understood that the Polish Ministry of Economy received a ‘dementi’ or denial that it [sc. a company] was selling Lodz. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1697
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