refusal, n.Definitions

Refusal is wise — One "no" averts seventy evils.

A Refusal is a denial of something desired, such as the execution of a lawyer by his client

Refusal is sometimes necessary. He who refuses nothing will soon have nothing to refuse.

A Refusal is sometimes the more polite course — a civil denial is better than a rude grant

Refusal is 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 casuist the refusal assertive.

Refusal is, when true, not that which says no but that which says yes such that it doing so is unnecessary.