Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rejecting or tending to reject or cast off.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Rejecting, or tending to reject.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
reject .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective rejecting or tending to reject
Etymologies
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Examples
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We were haunted with a triplistic vision of a seemingly concrete unloved "me," a seemingly concrete rejective "you," and the seemingly concrete act of speaking words that could prove one's affection.
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There is in the contemporary world an ingrained, deeply inherited belief to the contrary: that the human species is by nature violent, aggressive, competitive, protective of its territory, rejective of the "other."
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A seemingly concrete unloved "me," a seemingly concrete rejective "you," and the seemingly concrete act of speaking words that could prove one's affection
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And the talk became all of horse, which is exclusive and rejective of other interests, even of women.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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In particular it offered a rejective account of ethics and conscience which confirmed his earliest beliefs in a lawgiver and judge intimately present to the soul.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Despair and/or 'Disgust' (i.e., rejective denial, or 'sour grapes' feeling towards what life might have been) represent the opposite disposition: feelings of wasted opportunities, regrets, wishing to be able to turn back the clock and have a second chance.
Latest Articles 2010
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Many show the popular imagination at work, with jocular and sometimes grotesque names, names that betray attitudes -- amused, derisive, envious, sardonic, rejective.
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[It must be noted that the proposal of the Court Reporter of the Council of State was rejective of the Scientologists’ request to establish a church.
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