I. -kshən noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French rejection, from Latin rejection-, rejectio, from rejectus (past participle of rejicere to reject) + -ion-, -io -ion
1. : the action of rejecting or the state of being rejected
an intellectual rejection of liberalism — Raymond Walters b. 1912
rejection of the atypical child by the … group — G.S.Speer
criminal behavior is sometimes rejection of existing institutions — H.A.Murray & C.K.Kluckhohn
2. : something rejected
II. noun
: an immune response in which foreign tissue (as of a skin graft or transplanted organ) is attacked by immune system components (as antibodies, T cells, and macrophages) of the recipient organism
• reject transitive verb