rejection.
The act of rejecting.
Meaning & usage
The act of rejecting.
My offer was met with rejection
The state of being rejected.
A blocked shot.
An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.
Where this word comes from
From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native Old English āworpennes (literally “thrown-out-ness”).
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