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/rɪdʒˈɛkt/ /rˈidʒɛkt/ Listen

verb

Reject v. t. (past & past part. rejected; pres. part. rejecting)

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. "Therefore all this exercise of hunting... the Utopians have rejected to their butchers." "Reject me not from among thy children."

To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate. "That golden scepter which thou didst reject." "Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me."

To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

Synonyms: To repel; renounce; discard; rebuff; refuse; decline.

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Etymology of 'Reject'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reject" Quotes from Famous Books

... impossibility, nevertheless to rely on the individual is not the act of a wise man or an intelligent. Whether the Emperor desire to encourage this creed is a matter within his own will. Should he desire to reject it, let him do so; it will arise one generation later. Should he desire to adopt it, let him do so; it will arise one generation earlier. A generation is as one moment in heaven's eyes. Heaven is eternal. The Emperor's reign is limited to a generation; heaven is boundless and illimitable. ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

... the regular entries because even though the mainland People's Republic of China claims Taiwan, elected Taiwanese authorities de facto administer the island and reject mainland sovereignty claims. With the establishment of diplomatic relations with China on January 1, 1979, the US Government recognized the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, acknowledging the ...

— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... it be with those who wilfully, or even thoughtlessly neglect the great salvation—those who reject the overtures of pardoning mercy and salvation by Christ. They will hereafter know and acknowledge that "they knew their duty but they did it not." It is said that "Judas went to his own place"—and that "Dives made his bed in hell." And herein will these words of the poet ...

— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various

... inconsiderable commerce or manufactures (for though its water-power is inexhaustible, its means of communication must ever be among the worst), and seems to have been created mainly as a barrier against that guilty ambition which impels rulers and chieftains to covet and invade territories which reject and resist their sway. Alas that the Providential design, though so palpable, should be so often disregarded! Doubtless, the lives lost from age to age by mere hardship, privation and exposure, during the passage of invading armies through Savoy, ...

— Glances at Europe - In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, - Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. • Horace Greeley

... whatever between a Tory and a Liberal Government? Do Trade Unionists desire the downfall of the existing Liberal Government? Would they really like to send a message of encouragement to the House of Lords—for that is what it comes to—to reject and mutilate Liberal and Radical legislation—and Labour legislation now before Parliament? Would they send such a message of encouragement to the House of Lords as this—"House of Lords, you were ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

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