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nonabject

nonabject adjective: not abject.

Adjective

nonabject (comparative more nonabject, superlative most nonabject)

  1. Not abject.
    • Isn't that the thing about us? That we try to create meaning through a struggle of recognizing the nonabject in us, in recognizing that what exists in the first case is the desire to cooperate?1998, Alison Leigh Brown, Subjects of Deceit: A Phenomenology of Lying, page 79
    • Similarly, while the law abolished formal distinctions, social norms and mores were slower to change, on the part of erstwhile senmin and nonabject people alike.2014, Joseph D. Hankins, Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan, page 21

Forms of nonabject

comparativemore nonabject
superlativemost nonabject
alternative formnon-abject

Origin of nonabject

From non- + abject.

Questions about nonabject

What does nonabject mean?
Nonabject means not abject.
What part of speech is nonabject?
Nonabject is an adjective.

Words near nonabject in the dictionary

  1. nonabhorrent
  2. nonabiding
  3. nonabilities
  4. nonability
  5. nonabine
  6. nonabject
  7. nonablated
  8. nonablative
  9. nonable-bodied
  10. nonablebodied
  11. nonabnormal

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