Definitions for abjection

abjection ab·jec·tion

Spelling: [ab-jek-shuh n]
IPA: /æbˈdʒɛk ʃən/

Abjection is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 434 anagrams from letters in abjection (abceijnot).

Definitions for abjection

noun

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

Origin of abjection

1375-1425; late Middle English abjectioun (Middle French) Latin abjectiōn-, stem of abjectiō casting away, equivalent to abject(us) (see abject) + -iōn- Examples for abjection

He wanted in that abjection to triumph over the entire East.

There is in the young girl all the abjection of the cad and of the school-boy.

Finally his failure and his shame had crushed him into abjection.

Tante's tears, her words and attitude of abjection, dispersed the nightmare horror.

By her silence, her abjection, her suppression, he shall prevail: not otherwise.

It is a disgrace to thee to go vagabonding about in this abjection.

This sublimeness combines with their abjection to overwhelm them and raise them up.

For in my abjection, I own I clutch at straws, miserably anxious for support.

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

They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury.

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