refusal
n. Denial of something desired, such as the execution of a lawyer by his client.
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Cynical Quotations
Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
— Ambrose Bierce
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