refusal
I
noun
abjuration, abnegation, ban, debarment, declination, declinature, defiance, denial, disallowance, disapprobation, disapproval, disavowal, disclaimer, discountenance, enjoinment, exclusion, incompliance, interdiction, negation, negative answer, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, prohibition, proscription, rebuff, recusatio, regrets, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, repulse, resistance, unwillingness, veto
associated concepts: refusal to answer, refusal to bargain, refusal to proceed, refusal to testify, right of first refusal
foreign phrases:
- Reprobata pecunia liberat solventem. — Money refused releases the debtor
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index
bar (obstruction), declination, disapproval, disclaimer, exclusion, negation, noncompliance (nonobservance), ostracism, prohibition, rebuff, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resistance
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006