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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 09:51 AM
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From dictionary.com: No word found for "rejectionist". WTF?
RE: the blivet's speech. He's said that word about 4 times already.
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 09:53 AM
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1. Put that in the 'dead-enders', 'strategery', and now 'masacured' file...nt
Edited on Wed Nov-30-05 09:53 AM by Al-CIAda
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:18 AM
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2. New word. Coined by this administration, like 'enemy combatant'.
Never was used before and we have no definition of what these things are.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:30 AM
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3. Words created by the blivet really scare me, since he can hardly
formulate a sentence unless it's sitting right in front of him.
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:31 AM
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4. He also used the word Saddamists - new bingo word
Saddamists and terrorists
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:33 AM
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5. Jeezuz, even Chris Matthews is starting to fancify words
Democratized - is it a real word?
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snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:38 AM
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6. Bush often gets confuseditical when he tries to wordify his thoughting.
However, "rejectionistic" is one of the results given after Bushifying the word "rejection" at this amusing and useful site. http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/amusement/wordify2.htm
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:05 PM
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7. Dictionaries aren't infallible.
It takes time and frequency for words to get into them. Some coinages that are really transparent take forever, even though they're used frequently in speech.

OED has the word though, but it only has examples from the '70s (and, I think, makes the definition specific to too limited a context). I think I'd amend it to "a person who rejects the specific policy or proposal being implicitly or explicitly referred to by the speaker". Even one of the OED's examples is a non-Arab, and I don't think Khomeini's "rejectionist" principles were uniquely referring to Israel. The formation's completely transparent, and the process used to coin it completely productive.

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Rejectionist

An Arab who refuses to accept a negotiated peace with Israel. Also transf. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence rejectionism, the policy of a rejectionist.

1976 Guardian 2 June 2/2 If Mr Kosygin wants to engineer the format of an Arab ‘rejectionist’ coalition to confront American penetration of the area, he is unlikely to get much encouragement from President Assad.
1976 Guardian Weekly 19 Dec. 8/4 Condemned to death by the mainstream Arafat-led guerrilla leadership‘Fascist’ he calls itAbu Nidal is Palestinian rejectionism at its most uncompromising.
1977 Time 10 Jan. 22/1 Last week a prominent member of the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine..and his wife..were found dead in their West Beirut apartment.
1977 Listener 18 Aug. 195/1 If..the peace moves collapse..he will be..helpless in a stormy sea of Arab rejectionism. 1977 Times 29 Nov. 15/4 It offends no previously declared principlesexcept those of the ‘rejectionists’ on both sides.
1979 Economist 1 Dec. 14/1 Khomeini would have remained a voice in the wilderness if his austere rejectionist doctrines had not caught the mood of a people whose religion is still young and vigorous.
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