A rejection; a refusal.
A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil.
Something that impedes or reverses progress; a setback.
The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.