rereject
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[edit]rereject (third-person singular simple present rerejects, present participle rerejecting, simple past and past participle rerejected)
- To reject again.
- 1988, Boris Aldanov, The Human Predicament - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 55:
- What this psychic illness teaches is that the West does not really want disarmament with its conciliation and accommodation — it wants rather the process of inducing-and-rejecting and reinducing-and-rerejecting that disarmament and conciliation in the enemy along in order to enjoy the unending process itself and raising it to Transcendence until the Other disappears, while being careful to avoid the fulfillment, disarmament and conciliation come into its own and established in actual fact (except in lip-service pretence for the public's benefit) lest that end the inducing-and-rejecting process.
- 1995, Allan Pred, Recognizing European Modernities: A Montage of the Present, →ISBN:
- How is one to do so as the future lines of vision made visible and given voice at that exposition are rerejected, as the pure and simple lines are no longer bought, as the meanings associated with those lines lose their moorings, as those lines disintegrate into pointlessness, as a protracted era which symbolically began with those lines now undergoes dramatic decomposition and confusingly unravels, as solid(arity) success melts into the thin air of disillusionment, as the welfare state writhes in crisis, as new hollow promises of a consumption Paradise are repeatedly recited by "new-liberal" prophets of the "free market" and the Common Market, as Swedes are confronted by a disjuncture between once central meanings and current meanings, as they culturally rework once rejected but later triumphant meanings, as they suffer the dis-ease of individual and collective identity crises?
- 2012, P. Slezak, W.R. Albury, Computers, Brains and Minds: Essays in Cognitive Science, →ISBN, page 119:
- The failure of dispositional analyses of belief as analyses of the 'ordinary' concept can explain our hesitancy to accept incorrigibility (if I believe that I believe that p, then I believe that p) or transparency (if I believe that p, then I know that I believe that p), the traits rerejected by dissonance theorists.