(medicine) immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

Usage examples of rejection.

The man who has become spiritual by acknowledgment of God, and wise by rejection of the proprium, sees divine providence in the world as a whole and in each and all things in it.

Any rejection by the Anabasis must be confirmed and approved through the office of the Solar Ambassador.

His use of final vowels after the noun, and his rejection of the pronoun, which apocope in the Arabic verb renders necessary in the everyday speech of the people, told the Master he was listening to some archaic, uncorrupted form of the language.

We can justify any apologia simply by calling life a successive rejection of personalities.

It was not reached by an induction of facts, a study of phenomena, or any fair process of reasoning, but was arbitrarily created to rescue a dogma from otherwise inevitable rejection.

She reported her rejection to CenCom, with the recommendation that she thought Chria Chance had the proper mental equipment to partner a ship in the Military Courier Service.

The liquor seemed to have an immediate effect, increasing my level of drunkenness, and with it my capacity for rejection.

The fem part was there, the stiffening, the bodily rejection, but there was that other response, too-hot, almost welcoming.

Note the insidious onset of late rejection after cessation of globulin therapy.

Benny was so angry at her rejection of his beloved that he grabbed a knife again, this time threatening to kill himself if she did not agree to their marriage.

Mark took the rejection with his usual good humor, mostly because, Jennet supposed, he did not believe she meant what she said.

And he knew that Kamila saw the rejection of her body as a measure of the extent of his love for another woman.

The rejection had infuriated Kinder, but he had agreed to continue in his job for two more years if his contract was changed.

Unfazed by his rejection, the big ork joined the others of his kind, with shoulder-slapping and arm-punching all around.

Vulnerable, nearly petrified by a fear Of rejection, she summoned courage and boldly reached out, letting her hand glide down his chest to the waist of his jeans, pausing where bare skin met denim, then drifting on further, down over button and placket and zipper, feeling him under her hand.