rejectionn.

1865 Times 28 Sept. 7/5 Jute.—Of 5,520 bales offered in auction nearly the whole was disposed of... Rejections..from 10l. 10s. to 11l.

1873 Ann. Rep. Chamber of Commerce N.Y. 1872–3 189 Jute Butts, in bales... Jute Rejection, in bales.

1950 T. M. Desai in C. N. Vakil Econ. Consequences Divided India xi. 441 India has been promised..20 lakh maunds of rejections at Rs. 34 per maund.

1989 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 49 713 Even if India used exclusively the cheapest types of jute used in Dundee—‘rejections’ and ‘cuttings’ used only for coarse sacking—for all sacking looms the average cost per loom-hour would be about $0.35 in India.

1920 U.S. Patent 1,354,290 1/1 With such a receiver I have obtained complete reception of the desired waves and complete rejection of the undesired waves.

1950 J. L. Lawson & G. E. 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.

1967 W. 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.

2000 F. M. Mims Forrest Mims Circuit Scrapbk. II. ii. 41/1 A power supply decoupler-regulator circuit to provide rejection of power supply ripple that might give rise to 60-Hz hum.

1931 Smith Coll. Stud. Soc. Work 1 407 Thirty-five cases of rejection were chosen in which staff members unanimously agreed to that diagnosis.

1939 P. 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.

1957 L. C. Steckle Probl. Human Adjustment (rev. ed.) vi. 133 Parental rejection usually results in aggressively hostile behavior in the child.

1989 J. D. Sutherland Fairbairn's Journey vii. 176 The schizoid personality has been made specifically afraid to love by the experience of rejection.

2002 R. L. Gabriels in R. L. Gabriels & D. E. Hill Autism v. 94 Initial psychogenic theorizing in the 1940s and 1950s deemed a child with autism to be the product of extreme parental rejection and lack of maternal bonding.

1943 Lancet 9 Oct. 449/1 The first anatomical sign of rejection of the homoplasts was a separation at the dermo-epidermal junction in the donor's graft.

1954 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 143 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.

1974 M. 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.

1994 Guardian 25 Jan. i. 7/1 In trials, cyclosporin, a drug used in transplant surgery to prevent organ rejection, has reduced significantly the blistering and weeping skin [of eczema].

2003 M. Atwood Oryx & Crake (2004) ii. 25 The aim of the..project was to grow an assortment of foolproof human-tissue organs in a transgenic knockout pig host—organs that would transplant smoothly and avoid rejection.

1863 Liverpool Mercury 10 Dec. 6/5 Hon. W. H. Seward dedicated the corner stone of the temple of mediation through his rejection letter to France.

1939 Times 8 May 11/3 The manuscript's first journey..was to America, under the title ‘The Wind in the Reeds’, and it was returned with a rejection letter.

2007 B. Livingstone Body Mind Soul Solution v. 103 I would get exhilarated that I was able to obtain a job interview only to be devastated by the rejection letter.

1881 Gentleman's Mag. June 728 The usual rejection-form was as follows:—Sir,—I am requested by Mr. Charles Dickens to express his regret that he cannot accept the contribution you have had the goodness to offer him.

1907 H. Westbrook & P. G. Wodehouse Not George Washington ii. ii. 42 I papered the walls with editorial rejection-forms, of which I was beginning to have a representative collection.

1997 H. Raz Divine Honors 48 At the moment Of catastrophe—the lumps, the rejection form, The denied promotion.

1974 Times 10 Oct. 7/4 Four Palestinian guerrilla organizations..are planning to form a new guerrilla group as a rival to the Palestine Liberation Organization... The four, known as the ‘Rejection Front’ in the Palestinian resistance movement.., are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the PFLP-General Command, the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front (ALF) and the Popular Struggle Front.

1988 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 9 Mar. (Opinion section) 11 Assad succeeded in intimidating the bloc of moderate and cautious Arab states headed by Saudi Arabia into supporting the Syrian-led rejection front against peace with Israel.

1997 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 27 92 I revisit those times, recalling the verbal assaults of the resistance organizations at the meetings of the Palestine National Council,..and the meetings of the Central Committee, and the Rejection Front.

1894 Rep. Comm. House of Representatives 2nd Sess., 53rd Congr. I. No. 215. 17 The rejection slip shows the amount of money saved to the Government, or the amount not paid.

1897 Writer Sept. 145/1 With the rejection slip came a personal note from the editor saying that he would be pleased to examine something else from my pen.

1933 D. Thomas Let. 9 May in Sel. Lett. (1966) 15 Forget the ‘annihilative reverse’ of the rejection slip.

1953 H. Miller Plexus xiii. 217 If they were thin envelopes it meant rejection slips, with a request to forward postage for the return of the scripts.

1995 Independent 8 May 13 One can only join the Mystery Writers of America as an aspiring writer with proof of labour, such as rejection slips.