refuse acceptance

He fumbled after words to ask what had happened, but his mind refused acceptance.

It is within your right to refuse acceptance of it.'

Thus, it is not uncommon for a woman to maliciously refuse acceptance of a get, in effect "chaining" her husband.

Obosi town is known as the root and the foundation of Evangelism in Igbo land because Evangelism began in Onicha, but could not spread for 25 years, during which time the Osi indigenes refused acceptance of it; but once accepted, Evangelism spread like wildfire.