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adjective

abject adj.

Cast down; low-lying. (Obs.) "From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood."

Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." "An abject liar." "And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams."

Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; of persons.

Humiliating; degrading; wretched; of situations; as, abject poverty.

Synonyms: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded.

noun

Abject n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. (Obs.) "Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?"

verb

Abject v. t. To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Abject'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Abject" Quotes from Famous Books

... well disposed individuals, of different nations and ages, who have humanely exerted themselves to suppress the abject personal slavery, introduced in the original cultivation of the European colonies in the western world, Bartholomew de las Casas, the pious bishop of Chiapa, in the fifteenth century, seems to have been the first. This amiable ...

— An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African • Thomas Clarkson

... in town," he said, hastily. "I saw his man at dinner. The train was reported late, but she made up time." Grasping desperately at his dignity, he swallowed an abject apology ...

— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower

... greetings and many abject expressions of a conscious inferiority, and attested by an ...

— The Mirror of Kong Ho • Ernest Bramah

... awoke out of the death-like trance into which this assault had thrown him, his hardihood was gone; and he was reconveyed to the cell, in which he was destined agonisingly to struggle out his last hideous and distorted hours, in a state of abject horror which cannot be described. He who felt nothing, knew nothing, had now his eyes opened with terrible clearness to one object—the livid phantasma of a strangling death. All the rest was convulsive despair and darkness. Thought shudders at it—but ...

— Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 • Various

... it is exceedingly difficult to forgive,—to forget, impossible; and while my husband's abject wretchedness and degradation disarmed the hate that has for so many years rankled in my heart, I could never again look willingly upon his face. Edith, you and I have nothing in common but miserable memories, which, I beg you to believe, are sufficiently vivid, without the torturing ...

— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

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