rejection (n.)

  1. the act of rejecting something; his proposals were met with rejection'

  2. the state of being rejected

  3. (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; rejection of the transplanted liver'

  4. the speech act of rejecting

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