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English
Etymology
From abject + -ify.
Verb
abjectify (third-person singular simple present abjectifies, present participle abjectifying, simple past and past participle abjectified)
- (transitive) To treat or regard as abject.
2013, Nicole Markotić, “Razzle Dazzle Heartbreak: Disability Promotion and Glorious Abjection in Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World”, in Marja Evelyn Mogk, editor, Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 60:That he cannot pity her may be emotional ailment on Chester's part, but if, as I am suggesting here, one avoids pathologizing his reaction, then Chester operates as a masculine devotee who refuses to objectify the feminine body; an (ostensibly) able-bodied viewer who refuses to “abjectify” the disabled body.
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