Rejoinder Definition

rĭ-joindər
rejoinders
noun
rejoinders
An answer to a reply.
Webster's New World
A reply; answer.
Webster's New World
The defendant's answer to a plaintiff's replication.
Webster's New World
A pleading in common law, made by the defendant to answer a replication by the plaintiff.
Webster's New World Law

(law) Defendant's answer to the replication.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
(intransitive) To issue a rejoinder.
Wiktionary
To say as a rejoinder.
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Other Word Forms of Rejoinder

Noun

Singular:
rejoinder
Plural:
rejoinders

Origin of Rejoinder

  • Middle English from Old French rejoindre to answer, rejoin rejoin1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French rejoindre, with infinitive used as noun frequent in Law French.

    From Wiktionary

Rejoinder Sentence Examples

  • Kutuzov made no rejoinder or remark.

  • The phone rang, precluding a pithy rejoinder, and as Cynthia was elbow-deep in dishwater, Dean answered.

  • The best known are the Annales Ecclesiastici, written by Cardinal Baronius as a rejoinder to and refutation of the Historia ecclesiastica or "Centuries" of the Protestant theologians of Magdeburg (12 vols., published at Rome from 1788 to 1793; Baronius's work stops at the year 1197).

  • There was the sharp rejoinder of unbelief, matched by the reverent mystified faith of the few who refused to go away.

  • Though these reasons were very insufficient and obscure, no one made any rejoinder.

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Words Starting With

RREREJ

Words Ending With

RERDER

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Words Starting With R and Ending With R

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