REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; 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 BierceOBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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