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noun

Abjection n.

The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm."

The state of being rejected or cast out. (R.) "An abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever."

A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. "That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible?"

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Etymology of 'Abjection'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Abjection" Quotes from Famous Books

... pretext for a constant grievance. Kate Croy remembered well what their mother, in a different quarter, had made of it; and it was Marian's marked failure to pluck the fruit of resentment that committed them, as sisters, to an almost equal fellowship in abjection. If the theory was that, yes, alas, one of the pair had ceased to be noticed, but that the other was noticed enough to make up for it, who would fail to see that Kate couldn't separate herself without a cruel pride? That lesson became ...

— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James

... again he had seen her; she was a byword with him; from the height of her residence she looked down on his mean gray walls; her luxury had been an insult to his abstinence; and with that zest which a small nature takes in the humiliation of its superior, he determined, in spite of her manifest abjection, to humiliate her ...

— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus

... here was disoriented, dwelling in that unending abjection produced by everlasting, irremediable poverty; many sloughed their occupations as a reptile its skin; others had none; some carpenters' or masons' helpers, because of their lack of initiative, understanding and skill, could ...

— The Quest • Pio Baroja