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/rɪdʒˈɔɪndər/ /ridʒˈɔɪndər/ Listen

Rejoinder

noun

A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one). Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte.

(law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication.

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"Rejoinder" Quotes from Famous Books

... where the sound corresponds with the sense. Ghemghem is, "to murmur," and the English word itself is not a bad example of the kind. The Mussulmans have very grotesque notions of the Christian doctrine of Trinity. A person said: "Do not the Christians say God has a Son?" "Yes," I replied. The rejoinder was, "That is making God like a bullock (‮بقر‬)!" My friend the Touatee, a native of Touat, tells me the Touaricks were originally from Timbuctoo, and so say all Touat Touaricks. The ghafalah just arrived from Tripoli has brought eighty camel-loads of barley. Observed the head of the little son ...

— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... over sixty miles within the past twenty-four hours, and he made a grumbling rejoinder. But in the end he roped one of Dakota's horses, saddled it, and presently vanished in the darkness. Allen and his men built a fire near the edge of the clearing ...

— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer

... Fairfax Lady Latimer had warned her. Bessie blushed rather warmly, and told what facts there were to tell, and she now learnt for the first time that her wooing was a matter of arrangement and policy. The information was not gratifying, to judge from the hot fire of her face and the tone of her rejoinder. "Mr. Cecil Burleigh is a fascinating person—so I am assured—but I don't think I was the least bit in love," she averred with energetic scorn. Her mother smiled, and did not say so much in reply ...

— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

... said, warmly, not lightly. There was nothing further from his mind than servile flattery, as his rejoinder might imply. "Alas!" he went on, "we no sooner meet than we part. May I ask when you ...

— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... the rejoinder will be as follows:—'Yes, but if the ten words in dispute really are part of the inspired verity, how is their absence from the earliest Codexes to be accounted for?' Now it happens that for once I am able to assign the reason. But I do so under ...

— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon

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