Reject
The word "rejection" was first used in 1415. The original meaning was "to throw" or "to throw back".
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Famous quotes containing the word reject:
“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“Such is the caprice of Romans ... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Every man is in a state of conflict, owing to his attempt to reconcile himself and his relationship with life to his conception of harmony. This conflict makes his soul a battlefield, where the forces that wish this reconciliation fight those that do not and reject the alternative solutions they offer. Works of art are attempts to fight out this conflict in the imaginative world.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)