rejection
[ri-jek-shuh n]
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Origin of rejection
Synonyms
See more synonyms for rejection on Thesaurus.com1, 2. refusal, spurning, dismissal, elimination.
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Examples from the Web for rejection
Contemporary Examples
Yet, what my peers do not realize – or cannot handle – is that rejection is a necessary part of forging a romantic relationships.
Kanye refuses to stomach any rejection, no matter how upper crust.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s Balmain Campaign: High Fashion Meets Low CultureAmy Zimmerman
December 23, 2014
And the rejection of that belief is the basic reason a person is a Republican.
Democrats Are Petrified of Defending Government—but They Need to StartMichael Tomasky
December 4, 2014
It is hardly a rejection of adulthood, rather a momentary escape from routine.
But the one-term Republican could still be spared from rejection.
Historical Examples
Mr. Disraeli, in the Commons, moved the rejection of the bill.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
Dreading a rejection, I solicited the interest of the merry damsel.
The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales")Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mammy was very nearly indignant in her rejection of the proposition.
Southern Lights and ShadowsVarious
On a divan the motion for rejection was carried by 178 to 136.
What do you suppose must have been my feelings, after this rejection, at the thought of my own dishonour?
SymposiumPlato
Word Origin and History for rejection
n.
1550s, from French réjection (16c.) or directly from Latin reiectionem (nominative reiectio) "act of throwing back," noun of action from past participle stem of reicere (see reject). In 19c., it also could mean "excrement." Medical transplant sense is from 1954. In the psychological sense, relating to parenting, from 1931.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
rejection
(rĭ-jĕk′shən)- The act of rejecting or the state of being rejected.
- The failure of a recipient's body to accept a transplanted tissue or organ as the result of immunological incompatability; immunological resistance to foreign tissue.
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
rejection
A process in which the immune system of a body attacks an organ or tissue, either its own or tissue transplanted into it from another organism. (See xenotransplantation.)
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Note
Rejection is the most serious problem faced in surgery involving organ transplants. Drugs are used to suppress the immune system after organ transplant in order to prevent the rejection of and eventual death of the transplanted tissue.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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