rejectment

English

Etymology

reject +‎ -ment

Noun

rejectment (countable and uncountable, plural rejectments)

1. The act of rejecting; rejection.
2. Matter that is rejected, or thrown away.
   • 1829, John Leonard Knapp, The Journal of a Naturalist:

     the brilliant metallic lustre of their wings , the fine central line being the rejectments of the creature in the infant stages of its growth

References

• “rejectment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.