REJECTION

rejection

(noun) the act of rejecting something; “his proposals were met with rejection”

rejection

(noun) the speech act of rejecting

rejection

(noun) (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; “rejection of the transplanted liver”

rejection

(noun) the state of being rejected

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

rejection (countable and uncountable, plural rejections)

The act of rejecting.

The state of being rejected.

(sports) A blocked shot.

Synonyms

• (state of being rejected): rejectedness

Source: Wiktionary


Re*jec"tion (r-jk"shn), n. Etym: [L. rejectio: cf. F. réjection.]

Definition: Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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