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English
Etymology
From Middle English abjeccioun, from either Middle French abjection or Late Latin abiectiōn-, from Latin abiectus (“cast down”).
Pronunciation
Noun
abjection (countable and uncountable, plural abjections)
- 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
- (obsolete, chiefly figuratively) Something cast off; garbage.
- (obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
The abjection of the king and his realm.
- (obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection.
- (sociology) The fact of being marginalized as deviant.
2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 98: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 ineffective.
- (biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
Translations
the act of bringing down or humbling
the state of being rejected or cast out
a low or downcast condition
References
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 4
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abjection”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.
French
Etymology
From Latin abiectiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
abjection f (plural abjections)
- (literary) something that is worthy of utter contempt
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