Definition of "rejection" []

• The act of rejecting or the state of being rejected. (noun)
• Something rejected. (noun)
• Medicine 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. (noun)

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• "They seldom say "no" because they fear disapproval or what they define as rejection."
• "Implicit in this rejection is the notion that being colonized by the British was a cake walk - cricket, polo, tea parties, and quite walks in the park - rather than some brutal foreign colonial power exploiting anotherforeignland for the benefit of King and Queen, or as Hitler would have said, the fatherland."
• "When it was rejected later, without the giver there to react, the rejection is a pure expression of right and wrong: clarity."