Denial /(?)/

De·ni·al

Denial

n.
  1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
    You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient.
    — Bp. Stillingfleet.
  2. A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.
  3. A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
    The commissioners, . . . to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials.
  4. A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.

Phrases & Compounds
Denial of one's self
a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.