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rejection
noun
1 rejection
The act of rejecting something.
Roget 55:
exclusion,
nonadmission,
omission,
exception,
rejection,
repudiation;
exile
etc.
(seclusion)
893;
noninclusion†,
preclusion,
prohibition.
separation,
segregation,
seposition†,
elimination,
expulsion;
cofferdam.
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Roget 764:
refusal,
rejection;
noncompliance,
incompliance†;
denial;
declining
etc.
v.;
declension;
declinature†;
peremptory refusal,
flat refusal,
point blank refusal;
repulse,
rebuff;
discountenance.
recusancy,
abnegation,
protest,
disclaimer;
dissent
etc.
489;
revocation
etc.
756.
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Roget 623:
abstention,
abstinence;
for bearance†;
refraining
etc.
v.;
inaction
etc.
681;
neutrality.
avoidance,
evasion,
elusion;
seclusion
etc.
893.
avolation†,
flight;
escape
etc.
671;
retreat
etc.
287;
recoil
etc.
277;
departure
etc.
293;
rejection
etc.
610.
shirker
etc.
v.;
truant;
fugitive,
refugee;
runaway,
runagate;
maroon.
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Roget 297:
ejection,
emission,
effusion,
rejection,
expulsion,
exportation,
eviction,
extrusion,
trajection†;
discharge.
emesis,
vomiting,
vomition†.
egestion†,
evacuation;
ructation†,
eructation;
bloodletting,
venesection [Med.],
phlebotomy,
paracentesis†;
expuition,
exspuition;
tapping,
drainage;
clearance,
clearage†.
deportation;
banishment
etc.
(punishment )
972;
rouge's march;
relegation,
extradition;
dislodgment.
bouncer [U.S.],
chucker-out [Slang].
[material vomited]
vomit,
vomitus [Med.],
puke,
barf [Coll.].
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Roget 610:
rejection,
repudiation,
exclusion;
refusal
etc.
764;
declination
Dutch: afstemming, rejectie, verwerping
Polish: odrzucenie
2 rejection
The state of being rejected.
Polish: odrzucenie
3 rejection
medicine An immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign.
Polish: odrzucenie
4 rejection
The speech act of rejecting.
Dutch: afschrijving, afwijzing
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