adv
(law) Against one's will; not of one's invitation.
v
To employ allorecognition
n
The quality of being apologetic.
adj
(archaic) Admitting of argument; arguable.
n
(obsolete) Relative position.
v
(idiomatic) To offer an opposing opinion humbly.
adj
(law) Pertaining to a test of causation whereby an agent or action is considered to have caused an event (and therefore to be responsible and/or liable for said event) if, had said agent or action not existed, the event would not have taken place.
n
The rejection and suppression of offensive material; censorship.
n
A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
v
(obsolete) To give an order contrary to (another order or wish), oppose (something).
n
A discrepancy between the statements made by a person in authority (especially by a politician) and the perceived truth.
adj
(law, US) In U.S. trademark law, misdescriptive in a way that is likely to deceive consumers in a way that influences the decision to purchase.
n
(obsolete) denial; refusal
n
An assertion of untruth.
n
The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
n
(countable) A particular fact, observation, or other item of evidence which shows or tends to show that a belief or hypothesis is not true.
adj
(obsolete) Releasing from obligation.
adj
(law) Tending to disprove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the falsity of an allegation.
n
(archaic) Synonym of errata
n
A claim that is self-evidently false, commonly used a rhetorical device.
n
(law) An unavoidable catastrophe, especially one that prevents someone from fulfilling a legal obligation.
n
a catch phrase used by American politicians to describe numbers that they claim do not add up correctly
n
(obsolete) Gainsaying; contradiction.
v
Pronunciation spelling of guess. [To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.]
v
(transitive) In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.
v
To contradict, to provide proof that something is not.
adj
being prohibited, interdicted.
n
(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of knowledge. [The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.]
n
A presentiment of something bad.
n
(law) Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner intentionally placed it somewhere, but then forgot to retrieve it from that place, and would be able to locate the property.
n
(law) An error in pleading.
n
(uncountable, obsolete) Evidence that contradicts or casts doubt on.
n
Alternative form of neg-raising [(linguistics) The phenomenon by which certain negated predicates (e.g. think, believe, expect) can give rise to a reading where the negation seems to take scope from an embedded clause.]
adj
(linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition.
n
(law) A denial which implies its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. For example, "I have never consumed cocaine while on duty" might imply that the person making the statement had consumed cocaine on other occasions.
adj
Without permission, without consensus, with coercion, especially said of sexual relations
n
(idiomatic) A statement which appears to deny that something is true, but which, when examined carefully, can be seen to have used diversion, bluster, or ambiguity to avoid making a clear, direct denial.
n
(idiomatic) A threatening offer by one party for which the results of failing to accept are so unattractive that the other party is almost compelled to accept.
adj
(law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
adj
Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
n
(nonstandard, uncommon) Recognition.
n
A second or subsequent denial.
n
Inaccurate or incomplete statistical data (especially economic) used to support misleading conclusions.
v
To disagree; to think something or someone is doing or saying what is wrong.
v
To say something that is then contradicted by events, normally in an unwelcome way.
v
To object to; to disagree with.
n
(countable) An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis.
n
(law) In commercial law and specifically competition law, any of various distinct violations or criminal offenses that may give rise to civil causes of action (being taken to court), usually including antitrust violations such as restraint of trade and predatory pricing, trademark infringement, passing off or palming off, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
v
(transitive) To fail to remember; to lose the memory or remembrance of; to forget.
v
To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).
n
A divesting of substantiality.
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