abjection

[ ab-jek-shuhn ]

noun

1. the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible.
2. the act of humiliating.
3. Mycology. the release of spores by a fungus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of abjection¹

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

Example Sentences

It also draws teens to brooding music, and never more so than in the ’90s, when alt-rock invaded the Top 40 and suddenly you could hear Kurt Cobain or PJ Harvey screaming about abjection on the radio.

From Time

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

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Abjection is not the result of the faithful discharge of duty, however trying the circumstances may be.

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But even as she measures and exults in the abjection of herself, a voice whispers in her soul that this is not the way.

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Why, without her it would fall into a state of indolence and degradation, even of utter abjection.

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Here the patience, the beauty, the abjection before the Devilish-Divine; there the defiance, the cult of the proud self.

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