re·jec·tion
n 1 : the action of rejecting or the state of being rejected <feelings of > < of the atypical child by the … group -G. S. Speer> <criminal behavior is sometimes of existing institutions -H. A. Murray & C. K. Kluckhohn> 2 : the immunological process of sloughing off foreign tissue or an organ (as a transplant) by the recipient organism .
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