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Definition of Rejectingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rejectingly
Literary usage of Rejectingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Zillah: A Tale of the Holy City by Horace Smith (1828)
"... she stepped upon the narrow cornice with a throbbing heart, and keeping her
eyes fixed upon the wall, while she waved her hand rejectingly to- VOL. IV. ..."
2. Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp, John Parker Anderson (1897)
"... might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws
them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, " Three, four—four grey hairs ! ..."
3. The Magazine of Poetry by Charles Wells Moulton (1893)
"... passions enslave; Scornfully, proudly, rejectingly, Serving the mercy God
gave; Nor look we to him who protectingly : His arm forth stretches to save. ..."
4. My mother's diamonds by Maria J. Greer (1879)
"But when I had brought him a cup of tea and a slice of toast myself, and saw him
turn away his head rejectingly, even I was convinced, and thought there was ..."
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