Antonyms for non-acceptance
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ak-sep-tuh ns |
Phonetic Transcription : ækˈsɛp təns |
- acceptance
- acquiescence
- admittance
- affirmation
- agreement
- allowance
- approval
- attraction
- avowal
- claim
- compliance
- concurrence
- confirmation
- conformity
- corroboration
- endorsement
- grant
- harmony
- inclusion
- normality
- obedience
- observance
- offer
- OK
- orthodoxy
- peace
- permission
- ratification
- sanction
- usualness
- vouching
- welcome
Definition of non-acceptance
Origin :- 1570s, from Middle French acceptance, from accepter (see accept). Earlier in same sense was acceptation (late 14c.).
- As in nonconformity : noun belief, behavior different from most
- As in refusal : noun denial of responsibility; unwillingness
- As in traversal : noun denial
- As in turndown : noun refusal
- As in denial : noun dismissal, refusal of belief in
- At any rate it was the length which was assigned to her as a reason for non-acceptance.
- Extract from : « Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle » by Clement K. Shorter
- You are requested to signify your acceptance, or non-acceptance of this appointment.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States » by Raphael Semmes
- Answers to royal invitations should be written in the third person, and reasons given for non-acceptance.
- Extract from : « Manners and Rules of Good Society » by Anonymous
- Indeed, disappointment at the non-acceptance of so many of his views by the world at large accentuated it.
- Extract from : « Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District » by Frederick Sessions
- A reply to the invitation is a necessity, because the hostess wishes time, in case of non-acceptance, to secure another guest.
- Extract from : « Social Life » by Maud C. Cooke
- There is something very peculiar about the acceptance or non-acceptance of Pike's resignation.
- Extract from : « The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War » by Annie Heloise Abel
- If not accepted, it binds to punishment for disregard of it as a law, and the non-acceptance of it is a proposed covenant command.
- Extract from : « The Ordinance of Covenanting » by John Cunningham
- If the bill has been dishonoured by non-acceptance it may be “accepted for honour supra protest.”
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 » by Various
- In England, if a bill is dishonoured by non-acceptance, a right of action at once accrues to the holder.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 » by Various
- I want you, disgusted with the world's non-acceptance of you, to find consolation in my love.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
Synonyms for non-acceptance
- abnegation
- abstaining
- adjuration
- ban
- bohemianism
- breach
- brush-off
- choice
- cold shoulder
- contradiction
- controversion
- contumaciousness
- declension
- declination
- defiance
- denial
- disaffection
- disaffirmance
- disaffirmation
- disagreement
- disallowance
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- discordance
- discountenancing
- disfavor
- dismissing
- disobedience
- disproof
- dissent
- eccentricity
- enjoinment
- exception
- exclusion
- forbidding
- forswearing
- gainsaying
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- iconoclasm
- insubordination
- interdiction
- knockback
- lawlessness
- mutinousness
- nay
- negation
- negative
- nix
- no
- no way
- nonacceptance
- nonagreement
- noncommittal
- noncompliance
- nonconsent
- objection
- opposition
- option
- originality
- pass
- prohibition
- proscription
- protestation
- rebuff
- rebuttal
- recalcitrance
- recusance
- recusancy
- refraining
- refusing
- refutal
- refutation
- regrets
- rejecting
- rejection
- renegement
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiating
- repudiation
- repulse
- repulsion
- retraction
- reversal
- statement
- statement abnegation
- strangeness
- thumbs down
- transgressiveness
- turndown
- unconventionality
- uniqueness
- unorthodoxy
- unruliness
- veto
- violation
- withholding
- writ
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