[UN-1 12.] Lack of acceptance.
1865. M. Arnold, Ess. Crit., iv. (1875), I. 148. Saint Theresa endured twenty years of unacceptance and of repulse in her prayers.
1898. Saintsbury, Short. Hist. Eng. Lit., XI. iii. (1900), 772. Mr. Ruskins ideas, when their first stage of unacceptance and their second of acceptance were over, came to be cavilled at.