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  1. rejectionnoun

    the act of rejecting something

    "his proposals were met with rejection"

    Antonyms:
    acceptance

  2. rejectionnoun

    the state of being rejected

    Antonyms:
    acceptance

  3. rejectionnoun

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

    "rejection of the transplanted liver"

    Antonyms:
    acceptance

  4. rejectionnoun

    the speech act of rejecting

    Antonyms:
    acceptance

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  1. rejectionnoun

    Synonyms:
    exclusion

  2. rejectionnoun

    Synonyms:
    declination, refusal, repudiation

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  1. rejectionnoun

    Synonyms:
    refusal, declination, rebuff, repulse, discarding, repudiation

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How to use rejection in a sentence?

  1. Lyndon B. Johnson:

    It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)

  2. Todung Mulya Lubis:

    According to the judge, the president's rejection of (the) clemency petition is not an administrative act so this court does not have the jurisdiction to accept our case, we plan to appeal today's court decision. We have two weeks to file an appeal. If the law is respected, the execution should be postponed until the legal process is over.

  3. Harlem Desir:

    We believe that the racist remarks, anti-Semitic remarks, spread through the Internet today or in other media do not fall in the category of expressing an opinion, rather there should be law that allows for us to suppress a rejection of others and a call for violence and a call for death.

  4. Thomas Huxley:

    Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.


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