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/rɪdʒˈɛkʃən/ /ridʒˈɛkʃən/ Listen

Rejection

noun

The act of rejecting something.

The state of being rejected.

(medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign.

The speech act of rejecting.

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"Rejection" Quotes from Famous Books

... that he had not accepted of Mr. Sharpe's offered compromise. "Half the estate certain, and his father's release from all difficulties, they thought too good offers to have been rejected. He might, as Sharpe had prophesied, have to repent his rejection of ...

— Tales And Novels, Vol. 8 • Maria Edgeworth

... by any word of intercourse that feeling would die away. Could she have told everything to Peregrine Orme she would have explained to him that his best chance lay in that liking for Felix Graham; or, rather, that as his rejection had been caused by that liking, his chance would be good again when that liking should have perished from starvation. But all this Lady Staveley could not explain to him; nor would it have been satisfactory to her feelings had it been in her power to do so. ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... confronted with an equally universal and vehement demand for Protection pure and simple by the erection of an Indian Tariff wall against the competition of imported manufactures. I need hardly point out how the rejection of such a demand would be exploited by the political agitator or how it would rally to the side of active disaffection some of the most conservative and influential classes in India. For if, as those ...

— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol

... you humble me, and how strongly evince your aversion to Colden, by offering, as the price of his rejection, half your property! How low am I fallen in your esteem, since you think it possible for such a bribe to prevail! and what calamities must this alliance seem to threaten, since the base selfishness of accepting this offer is better, in your eyes, ...

— Jane Talbot • Charles Brockden Brown

... these hypotheses meet and satisfy the demands of the problem? does it fully account for and adequately explain all the facts of religious history? The answer to this question must not be hastily or dogmatically given. The arbitrary rejection of any theory that may be offered, without a fair and candid examination, will leave our minds in uncertainty and doubt as to the validity of our own position. A blind faith is only one remove from a pusillanimous skepticism. We can not render our own position ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

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