Rejects

Examples

• Socrates answers that this is the doctrine of Thrasymachus which he rejects. Plato. The Republic.
• That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The plant makes use of the carbon but it rejects the oxygen, which passes back into the atmosphere through the pores of the leaves. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He who rejects this view of the imperfection of the geological record, will rightly reject the whole theory. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Ireland once wished it, but now rejects it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• That fair young creature cannot believe there ever was any such lady and rejects the whole history on the threshold. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The mind which rejects syndicalism entirely because of the by-products of its despair has had pearls cast before it in vain. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He doesn't want real warm intimacy--he won't have it--he rejects it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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