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REJECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning
Example:
jilted at the altar
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb reject
Context examples:
He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If he goes on like the rejected lovers in books, you'll give in, rather than hurt his feelings.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A statistical method used for multiple testing corrections to control the expected proportion of false positives (Type I error) among rejected tests or hypotheses.
(False Discovery Rate, NCI Thesaurus)
A statistical method used for multiple testing corrections to control the expected proportion of false positives (Type I eror) among rejected tests or hypotheses.
(Family-Wise Error Rate, NCI Thesaurus)
But she could hear of no situation that at once answered her notions of comfort and ease, and suited the prudence of her eldest daughter, whose steadier judgment rejected several houses as too large for their income, which her mother would have approved.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Felix rejected his offers with contempt, yet when he saw the lovely Safie, who was allowed to visit her father and who by her gestures expressed her lively gratitude, the youth could not help owning to his own mind that the captive possessed a treasure which would fully reward his toil and hazard.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He talked of foregrounds, distances, and second distances—side-screens and perspectives—lights and shades; and Catherine was so hopeful a scholar that when they gained the top of Beechen Cliff, she voluntarily rejected the whole city of Bath as unworthy to make part of a landscape.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all; and Anne, glad to be thought of some use, glad to have anything marked out as a duty, and certainly not sorry to have the scene of it in the country, and her own dear country, readily agreed to stay.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Once I was strongly bent upon resistance, for, while I had liberty the whole strength of that empire could hardly subdue me, and I might easily with stones pelt the metropolis to pieces; but I soon rejected that project with horror, by remembering the oath I had made to the emperor, the favours I received from him, and the high title of nardac he conferred upon me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little endeavour at civility, I am thus rejected.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
