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rejection|rɪˈdʒɛkʃən|
[a. F. réjection (16th c.), or ad. L. rejectiōn-em, n. of action f. rejicĕre to reject.]
1. a. The action of rejecting or the state of being rejected.
1552in Huloet. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 99 b, Rejeccion is then used when we lay suche faultes from us as our enemies would charge us with all. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxviii. §6 Vtter rejection of the whole Christian faith. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §74 They who were for a rejection of the King's Proposition. 1744Harris Three Treat. Wks. (1841) 86 Were this neglected, what would become of selection and rejection..? 1835Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. iii. 36 We grieve over the rejection of the Irish Church Bills last year and this. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 334 The Count..left Paris with a decisive rejection of the emperor's advances.
b. concr. That which is rejected; excrement.
1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. iv. (1628) 100 The sand banckes or downes, which the reiection of the sea by little and little hath raised and cast vp. 1839Britannia 13 July, Happy to sun himself and sleep on the basest rejections of the public stable. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 898 The later rejections are watery and copious.
c. Psychol. The refusal or inability to accept emotionally the fact of being a parent to one's child; the state of rejecting a child or of being rejected by a parent. Cf. reject v. 6 d.
1931Smith Coll. Stud. in Soc. Work I. 407 Thirty-five cases of rejection were chosen in which staff members unanimously agreed to that diagnosis. 1939P. M. Symonds Parent-Child Relationships i. 10 Such concepts and terms as rejection and overprotection seem to have emerged into common use out of the child guidance movement. Ibid., Newell..reports on 33 children diagnosed as cases of maternal rejection. 1957L. C. Steckle Probl. Human Adjustment (rev. ed.) vi. 132 Rejection is most effective in building uncertainty. Ibid. 133 Parental rejection usually results in aggressively hostile behavior in the child. 1973A. Janov Primal Scream vii. 74 Once that is felt, there are no more feelings of ‘rejection’.
2. Electronics. The process of attenuating an unwanted electrical signal. Freq. attrib.
1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 712/2 Rejection filter. 1950Lawson & Uhlenbeck Threshold Signals xii. 346 Besides automatic biasing, rejection filters in the i-f amplifier can be used to reduce the effects of c-w interference. 1953[see detection 3]. 1957R. W. Landee et al. Electronic Designers' Handbk. xvi. 29 If the feedback network by itself does not have a complete null, the depth of the null for the rejection amplifier will be less than the depth of the null for the null network taken by itself. 1967W. A. Stover Circuit Design for Audio, AM/FM, & TV xiii. 227 The IF rejection is enhanced by placing a resonant circuit or filter near the tuner input.
3. Med. Failure of transplanted tissue to survive or function in the body of the recipient as a result of the immune response it evokes in the latter.
1954Proc. R. Soc. B. CXLIII. 43 Incompatibilities (falling short of rejection) became apparent when homografts were exchanged between members of separate sublines which..stood only eight to twelve generations apart. 1974Times 5 Apr. 18/3 Professor Shumway believes that heart-transplant patients, like those given kidney transplants, gradually develop a tolerance to the grafted organ and so become less likely to have to cope with severe rejection episodes. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. i. 7 We are optimistic that..more effective drugs to prevent the rejection of organ transplants will be discovered in the present decade.
4. Comb., as rejection form rare = rejection slip below; Rejection Front, an alliance of Arab groups, who refuse to consider a negotiated peace with Israel (see rejectionist); rejection slip, a formal notice sent by an editor or publisher to an author with a rejected MS.
1907Wodehouse Not George Washington ii. ii. 42, I papered the walls with editorial rejection-forms, of which I was beginning to have a representative collection. 1917‘W. N. P. Barbellion’ Jrnl. Disappointed Man (1919) 296, I used to file..rejection forms and meditated writing a facetious essay on them. 1975Financial Times 23 Dec. 4/8 The ‘Rejection Front’, which is led by the PFLP, stands strongly opposed to efforts at a Middle East settlement and to conservative regimes in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia and Iran. 1978Radio Times 28 Jan.–3 Feb. 15/4 The Arab ‘Rejection Front’ nations of Iraq, Algeria, Libya and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen were prepared to give finance, training facilities and arms to his group.
1906J. London Let. 19 Nov. (1966) 223, I have just received from you, along with a rejection-slip, two poems..which have evidently been submitted to you over my name. 1933Dylan Thomas Let. 9 May (1966) 15 Forget the ‘annihilative reverse’ of the rejection slip. 1953H. Miller Plexus II. xiii. 217 If they were thin envelopes it meant rejection slips, with a request to forward postage for the return of the scripts. 1978P. Sutcliffe Oxf. Univ. Press iv. i. 108 He, Gerrans, and Doble soon settled upon a formula, a terse but dignified communication that might be a little more comforting to the author than a bare rejection slip, the use of which the Press has always eschewed. 1979F. Adcock Inner Harbour 2 ‘Please send future work’—Editor's note on a rejection slip. |