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S: (n) rejection (the act of rejecting something) "his proposals were met with rejection"

S: (n) brush-off (a curt or disdainful rejection)
S: (n) avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging (deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening)

S: (n) aversion, averting (the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away) "averting her gaze meant that she was angry"
S: (n) escape (an avoidance of danger or difficulty) "that was a narrow escape"
S: (n) near thing (something that barely avoids failure or disaster)

S: (n) exposure (abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open))
S: (n) apostasy, tergiversation (the act of abandoning a party for cause)
S: (n) bolt (a sudden abandonment (as from a political party))

S: (n) renunciation, forgoing, forswearing (the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.))

S: (n) forsaking, giving up (the act of forsaking)
S: (n) abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation (renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others)

S: (n) nonacceptance, turndown (the act of refusing an offer) "the turndown was polite but very firm"
S: (n) banishment, proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

S: (n) anathematization, anathematisation (the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed)
S: (n) disbarment (the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law)
S: (n) ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance (the act of forcing out someone or something) "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"

S: (n) defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)
S: (n) deportation (the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien)
S: (n) ostracism (the act of excluding someone from society by general consent)
S: (n) barring, blackball (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)
S: (n) ouster, ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)

S: (n) deposition, dethronement (the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office)

S: (n) exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation (the act of expelling a person from their native land) "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
S: (n) excommunication, excision (the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society)
S: (n) relegation (mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position) "he has been relegated to a post in Siberia"
S: (n) rustication (banishment into the country)

S: (n) act, deed, human action, human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)

S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)

S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))

S: (n) rejection (the state of being rejected)
S: (n) rejection ((medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign) "rejection of the transplanted liver"
S: (n) rejection (the speech act of rejecting)