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abjection
[ ab-jek-shuhn ]
noun
- the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible.
- the act of humiliating.
- Mycology. the release of spores by a fungus.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of abjection1
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Example Sentences
There is no more abjection in the colonial status than in any other.
Abjection is not the result of the faithful discharge of duty, however trying the circumstances may be.
But even as she measures and exults in the abjection of herself, a voice whispers in her soul that this is not the way.
Why, without her it would fall into a state of indolence and degradation, even of utter abjection.
Here the patience, the beauty, the abjection before the Devilish-Divine; there the defiance, the cult of the proud self.
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