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abject

abject (third-person singular simple present abjects, present participle abjecting, simple past and past participle abjected)

1. (transitive) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
   • 2001, Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco (editors), Bodies out of bounds: fatness and transgression, page 141:

     Rather than abjecting her own fat body, the Ipecac-taking fat girl is abjecting diet culture.

abject (plural abjects)

1. (obsolete) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

   Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?- Isaac Taylor

   We are the queens abjects, and must obey. - W. Shakespeare [Richard III, Act I, Scene I]

abject (comparative abjecter or more abject, superlative abjectest or most abject)

1. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

   ""Base and abject flatterers."" - Joseph Addison

   ""An abject liar."" - Thomas Babington Macaulay

   ""And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams."" - Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, I-ii

   ""He sat obediently with that tentative and abject eagerness of a man who has but one pleasure left and whom the world can reach only through one sense, for he was both blind and deaf."" - 1931 Faulkner, Sanctuary, ii

2. (obsolete) Cast down; rejected; low-lying.

   ""So thick bestrown abject and lost lay these, covering the flood."" - John Milton

Definizione dizionario abject

miserabile

misero

povero

abbietto

abietto

estremo

infame

orrendo

orribile

spregevole

sprezzante

Altri significati:

Cast down; rejected; low-lying

(obsolete) Cast down; rejected; low-lying.

(obsolete) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition

(transitive) (obsolete) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope