rejectment

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English

Etymology

From reject +‎ -ment.

Noun

rejectment (countable and uncountable, plural rejectments)

  1. The act of rejecting; rejection.
  2. Matter that is rejected, or thrown away.
    • 1829, John Leonard Knapp, The Journal of a Naturalist:
      the brilliant metallic lustre of their wings , the fine central line being the rejectments of the creature in the infant stages of its growth

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