Rejection
[rɪ'dʒekʃ(ə)n] or [rɪ'dʒɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of rejecting something; 'his proposals were met with rejection'.
(noun.) the speech act of rejecting.
(noun.) (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; 'rejection of the transplanted liver'.
(noun.) the state of being rejected.
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Definition
(n.) Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Exclusion.[2]. Declination, refusal, repudiation.
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Examples
- Could this too be a proud rejection of sympathy and help? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Rejection of Mr Boffin's proposal of such a date and to such an effect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She desired to express her fears to her son, and to seek consolation from his sympathy with, or courage from his rejection of, her auguries. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Is that tantamount, sir, to acceptance, or rejection, or consideration? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Paul and I did battle more than once--strong battle, with confused noise of demand and rejection, exaction and repulse. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If rejection there had been--and he wondered now that he had ever doubted it! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Emma could not have desired a more spirited rejection of Mr. Martin's prose. Jane Austen. Emma.
- To decided rejection, if you please, returned my guardian. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In Great Britain we do not have Elections any more; we have Rejections. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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