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adjective

abject adj.

Cast down; low-lying. (Obs.) "From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood."

Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." "An abject liar." "And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams."

Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; of persons.

Humiliating; degrading; wretched; of situations; as, abject poverty.

Synonyms: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded.

noun

Abject n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. (Obs.) "Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?"

verb

Abject v. t. To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. (Obs.)

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"Abject" Quotes from Famous Books

... The judge regarded him with a look of great steadiness. He saw his small face go white, he saw the look of abject terror in his eyes. The judge raised his fist and brought it down with a great crash on the table, so that the breakfast dishes leaped and rattled. "We don't know any boy ten years old with a ...

— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester

... Meditation is to call to your attention a new method of defence, by which you may reduce the will of your new wife to a condition of utter and abject submission. This is brought about by the reaction upon her moral nature of physical changes, and the wise lowering of her physical condition by a diet ...

— The Physiology of Marriage, Part II. • Honore de Balzac

... instinctively that Mime is bad, low and cunning—and it does not justify him: Mime, with an ulterior purpose, it is true, has saved him from death by starvation in his infancy, and nurtured him, and the least Siegfried could do was to leave the abject creature in peace. It is true also that he is mending Siegfried's sword—but this is to anticipate. I cannot accept Siegfried as a specimen of the highest heroic humanity. The boldness of a man who because of his dull wits cannot realise danger ...

— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman

... unsaid, no act undone, To prove to me thou wert my abject slave. Ah! Love, hadst thou been wise enough to save One little drop of ...

— Maurine and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... reasonable to ascribe some share in the restoration of good to Klopstock, both because his own writings exhibit nothing of this most abject euphuism, (a euphuism expressing itself not in fantastic refinements on the staple of the language, but altogether in rejecting it for foreign words and idioms,) and because he wrote expressly on the ...

— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

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