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/rɪdʒˈɛkʃən/ /ridʒˈɛkʃən/ Listen

Rejection

noun

The act of rejecting something.

The state of being rejected. Antonym: acceptance.

(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

... surely that Masons should be men adhering to that law of right and wrong common to all religious faiths. Craft Masonry may thus be described as Deist in character, but not in the accepted sense of the word which implies the rejection of Christian doctrines. If Freemasonry had been Deist in this sense might we not expect to find some connexion between the founders of Grand Lodge and the school of Deists—Toland, Bolingbroke, Woolston, Hume, and others—which flourished precisely at this period? ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

... disposition led him to make the differences between his belief and that of the old Church seem as few and slight as possible. He showed that both parties held the same fundamental views of Christianity. The Protestants, however, defended their rejection of a number of the practices of the Roman Catholics, such as the celibacy of the clergy and the observance of fast days. There was little or nothing in the Augsburg Confession concerning the organization of ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... in different universities and at different times. The proportion of successful candidates seems to have been everywhere very large, and in some universities rejection must have been almost unknown. We do find references to disappointed candidates, e.g. at Caen, where medical students who have been "ploughed" have to take an oath not to bring "malum vel damnum" upon the examiners. But even at Louvain, where the examination system (p. 149) was ...

— Life in the Medieval University • Robert S. Rait

... confounds with the prejudice which he would glorify. How utterly absurd it is to infer that it is inconsistent in a father to apply a totally different test to a man aspiring to be his son-in-law to that applied to a man asking for political rights! The rejection of a man because he lacks generations of approved blood behind him is classed by Mr. Dixon as race discrimination, whereas such rejections are daily made for similar reasons ...

— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs

... The rejection of the bill was probably the most severe trial George Stephenson underwent in the whole course of his life. The circumstances connected with the defeat of the measure, the errors in the levels, his rigid cross-examination, followed by the fact ...

— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles

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