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abjections

abjections is the plural of abjection.

Meaning of abjection

Noun

abjection (countable and uncountable, plural abjections)

  1. A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
    • an abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) Something cast off; garbage.
  3. (obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
    • The abjection of the king and his realm.
  4. (obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection.
  5. The fact of being marginalized as deviant.
    • The disclosure of tolerance's hidden phobic lining fits in well with queer theory's embrace of the abject as exhorted by Michael Warner, David Halperin, and Lee Edelman. Embracing difference or culturally ascribed abjection with the aim of overcoming or dissipating it would be both naive and...2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 98
  6. The act of dispersing or casting off spores.

Questions about abjections

What is abjections the plural of?
Abjections is the plural of abjection.

Words near abjections in the dictionary

  1. abjectifies
  2. abjectify
  3. abjectifying
  4. abjecting
  5. abjection
  6. abjections
  7. abjective
  8. abjectly
  9. abjectness
  10. abjectnesses
  11. abjects

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