单词 | rejecting |
释义 | rejectingn. The action or an act of rejecting someone or something.In quot. a1425: †the action of kicking backwards with the hind legs (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance renunciation1418 rejectinga1425 reprobationa1425 rejectiona1464 abjection?1529 refute1535 abdication1552 abnegation1554 abrenunciation1557 recusancy1563 repudy1575 offcasting?1591 rejectment1599 defiancea1616 canvass1621 non-acceptation1622 repudiation1640 disacceptance1642 non-acceptance1647 disowning1656 discard1663 disownment1806 unacceptance1865 ding1949 negging1996 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxiv Whan..at þe last she [sc. the hare] be abyte with houndes notwithstondynge her rusyng, swattynge, and reiectynge [a1425 Bodl. reiettynge, c1425 Vesp. reseityng, a1450 Douce regetting], who so is nexte shulde sterte to geete her hoole fro hem. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxvii Yt cannot be desceyuyd in the choyse of holy scrypture and reiectyng of the contrary. 1587 J. Penry Treat. Æquity Humble Supplic. 11 What..carelesse negligence of Gods seruice, & the wilfull reiecting thereof, hath stirred..amongst nations. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (x. 29) ii. 500 This sin is a wilfull rejecting of the means whereby the wounds of sin should be healed. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 64 What means else your rejecting of the Laws of Shaddai, and your obeying of Diabolus? View more context for this quotation 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. xxxix. 191 If the proposals from the young Irish peer, whom Nancy praises so much for his sobriety, modesty, learning, and other good qualities, were made before or after the rejecting of Mr. Greville? 1793 T. Pennant Lit. Life 82 The balloting, the approvings and the rejecting of volunteers or substitutes, resting..in the civil magistrates. 1851 J. Baillie Henriquez I. i O to what hast thou consented? To more than the rejecting of my love. 1874 H. W. Beecher Morning & Evening Exercises 396 This is receiving Christ by faith. It is not the rejecting of the senses; it is the non-using of them rather. 1910 Times 12 Dec. 11/3 The matter referred must be the passing or rejecting of a specific and complete measure. 1992 Eng. Today Apr. 23/2 Fowler himself wrote disapprovingly of ‘genteelisms’, which he defined thus: the rejecting of the ordinary natural word that first suggests itself to the mind, and the substitution of a synonym that is thought to be less soiled by the lips of the common herd. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rejectingadj. That rejects (in modern use chiefly in sense 10d of the verb). Cf. never-rejecting adj. at never adv. and int. Compounds 2c. ΚΠ 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 141 Sometimes lifting up your Hands, threaten and denounce punishment, or with a rejecting posture abominate. 1847 R. Montgomery Sacred Medit. (ed. 3) 283 Cain..the fruits and flowers preferred Proudly to offer the rejecting Heavens,—Who claimed a sacrifice. 1930 Smith Coll. Stud. Social Work 1 58 One or both parents over-protective, rejecting, or were overambitious, as the category indicates. 1970 H. Edelston Found. & Growth of Char. iii. ii. 117 We hear a great deal of the rejecting mother: not quite so much of the over-demanding child. 1993 Vancouver Sun 11 Aug. a1/5 They remembered their parents—and most crucially, their fathers—as being rejecting and cold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425adj.1644 |
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