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What is the noun for snubbing?

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snub
  1. A deliberate affront or slight.
  2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  3. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It is time both parents and ambitious students thought of giving a snub to all those avaricious private medical and engineering colleges.”
      “Brown's failure to secure a one-to-one meeting with the president was seen as a public snub.”
      “The president, still infuriated over the snub of his liberal proposal, insisted that he was withdrawing his concession and reverting to his original policy.”
snubber
  1. A device used to suppress ("snub") voltage transients in electrical systems, pressure transients in fluid systems, or excess force or rapid movement in mechanical systems.
  2. (rare) One who snubs.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Cadwallader Hunter could swallow a snub with a smile, but never would he forgive the snubber.”
      “I put a devil's claw on the chain with a nylon snubber to the samson post, pipe-furled the sails and started getting loose gear secured above and below.”
      “A snubber is provided adjacent the disc, the snubber having a body portion rigidly affixed with respect to the disc and snubber arms connected to the body portion.”
snubbing
snubbery
  1. Snubs, the act or result of snubbing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She brushed off his request to dance the second cotillion with him, using the graceful, courteous snubbery he had spent so long teaching her.”
snubbee
  1. One who is subjected to a snub.
snubness
  1. The quality of being snub.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But consider, a snubness of the nose, how is that more beautiful than straightness?”
snubbings
snubberies
  1. plural of snubbery
snubnesses
  1. plural of snubness
snubbees
  1. plural of snubbee
snubbers
  1. plural of snubber
snubs
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