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abjectedness

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ab⋅ject

  [ab-jekt, ab-jekt]
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–adjective
1. utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
2. contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward.
3. shamelessly servile; slavish.
4. Obsolete. cast aside.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L abjectus thrown down (ptp. of abicere, abjicere), equiv. to ab- ab + -jec- throw + -tus ptp. suffix

Related forms:
ab⋅ject⋅ly, adverb
ab⋅ject⋅ness, ab⋅ject⋅ed⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. debasing, degrading; miserable. 2. base, mean, low, vile.

Antonyms:
exalted.
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