noun
rĕnūtus
Meaning
- a denying
rĕnūtus, ūs, m. renuo,
I. a denying, refusal; a word formed by Pliny the Younger, for the Homeric ἀνένευσεν (Il. 16, 250):
ego quoque simili nutu ac renutu respondere voto tuo possum, Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 2.