abjection

[ ab-jek-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible.

  2. the act of humiliating.

  1. Mycology. the release of spores by a fungus.

Origin of abjection

1
1375–1425; late Middle English abjectioun (<Middle French ) <Latin abjectiōn-, stem of abjectiō casting away, equivalent to abject(us) (see abject) + -iōn--ion; or ab- + (e)jection

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How to use abjection in a sentence

  • There is no more abjection in the colonial status than in any other.

    England, Canada and the Great War | Louis-Georges Desjardins
  • abjection is not the result of the faithful discharge of duty, however trying the circumstances may be.

    England, Canada and the Great War | Louis-Georges Desjardins
  • But even as she measures and exults in the abjection of herself, a voice whispers in her soul that this is not the way.

    Browning's Heroines | Ethel Colburn Mayne
  • 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.

    Appearances | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson