| He was rejected and outcast, and like Job, accepted his suffering and abandonment. |
| Many times, he told me, reformers rejected a compromise as a bridge too far. |
| He rejected his father's advice, considering them to be wifty and impractical at best. |
| Indeed, he commended the Quakers, who rejected the sacraments, for their stress on God as Spirit. |
| In Louisiana the Creoles and Acadians rejected the cotton planters' Southern nationalism. |
| The Quakers also rejected the use of you as a polite form of address, and preferred thou, which to them signalled intimacy and equality. |
