Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript before Jenks saw its potential. If you reject a belief or a political system, you refuse to believe in it or to live by its rules. ...the children of Eastern European immigrants who had rejected their parents' political and religious beliefs. [VERB noun] More @Wikipedia
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