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refusal |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Refusal \Re*fus"al\ (-al), n. 1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more? --Milton. 2. The right of taking in preference to others the choice of taking or refusing; option; as to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: refusal n 1: the act of refusing 2: the polite declining of an invitation [syn: {regrets}, {declination}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
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