Results for refusal

Definitions of refusal:

part of speech: noun

Denial of anything requested: rejection: the right of taking in preference to others.

part of speech: noun

The denial of anything solicited or offered for acceptance; choice of taking or refusing; option.

part of speech: noun

The act of rejecting or denying; rejection or denial of anything offered or asked; the right to refuse or take before others; as, to have the refusal of an office.

Usage examples for refusal:

• In this case Malcolm Sage arrived at the truth by a refusal to accept what, on the face of it, appeared to be the obvious solution. "Malcolm Sage, Detective", Herbert George Jenkins

• " I chose this line of argument because Wilson fears above all things the humiliation of a refusal "My Three Years in America", Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff

• His great mistake had been in going to Spicca, but nothing could have been more natural, under the circumstances, than his appeal to Maria Consuelo's father, nothing more unexpected than the latter's determined refusal to help him. "Don Orsino", F. Marion Crawford

• But his refusal to face facts about her musical career was another thing altogether. "Mary Wollaston", Henry Kitchell Webster