unrejectedadj.
/ˌʌnrᵻˈdʒɛktᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈdʒɛktəd/, /ˌənriˈdʒɛktəd/ Not rejected or discarded.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > [adjective] > approved or accepted > not objected to or censured
blameless1377
unreprovedc1425
unrebukedc1475
unberisped1481
uncastigate1539
unreprehended1572
uncensured1574
unimproved1604
unreproached1616
uncontemned1623
unmurmureda1627
unrepined1626
unexcepted1631
unrejecteda1643
uncomplained1648
untwitted1651
uncastigated1657
unupbraided1682
unobjected1687
unjobed1732
uncriticized1751
unremonstrated1756
unanimadverted1816
unscolded1855
uncondemned1861
undecried1868
a1643 J. Spelman Case of Affaires (1644) 24 For if anointed David might not intermeddle with rejected Saul, much lesse may common Subjects meddle with their unrejected Soveraignes.
a1657 W. Guild Throne of David (1659) (2 Sam. ii. 1–12) 24 Not simply, but as Lawfull King unrejected by God, he reigned no longer.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece ii. 49 There the tender eye May view..the lame, employ'd, And unrejected age.
1815 J. Moore Hist. Small Pox vii. 206 These notions of concoction and expulsion are unrejected remains of Galen's theory of fever.
1891 Unitarian Nov. 529/1 Here still linger some of the unrejected fictions of traditional dogma.
1922 Q. Wright Control Amer. Foreign Relations Pref. p. ix In the winter of 1920, with the Treaty of Versailles still unratified and unrejected by the Senate.
2001 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 20 Apr. a16 Holmes tells us that when only one possibility remains unrejected, then—however unlikely—it must be true.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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