refusal Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of refusing
  2. noun a message refusing to accept something that is offered

WordNet

Re*fus"al noun
Definitions
  1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.
    Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more? Milton.
  2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.

Webster 1913