nonrefusal

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ refusal

Noun[edit]

nonrefusal (usually uncountable, plural nonrefusals)

  1. Absence of refusal.
    • 2001, Karmen MacKendrick, Immemorial silence:
      Here the silent, the inexpressible, is not simply death, but even its inherence in life, or life's nonrefusal of both death and living, language's nonrefusal of silence with sound.
    • 2002, Robert M Groves, Survey nonresponse:
      This study has three purposes: The first is to compare the frequency of item missing values for converted and nonrefusal cases.