nonabject

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English

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Etymology

From non- +‎ abject.

Adjective

nonabject (comparative more nonabject, superlative most nonabject)

  1. Not abject.
    • 1998, Alison Leigh Brown, Subjects of Deceit: A Phenomenology of Lying, page 79:
      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?
    • 2014, Joseph D. Hankins, Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan, page 21:
      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.
    • 2015, James M. Decker, Indrek Männiste, Henry Miller: New Perspectives, page 68:
      "Exalted" and "impoverished" forms of life impose an equally "insuperable gap" between themselves and the rest of humanity—the cause of unparalleled terror in the nonabject, nondivine ordinary human being.
    • 2019, Carlos Riobó, Caught Between the Lines:
      Specifically the model for Spivak's subaltern is an indigenous woman in a nonabject state in British-colonized India who is silenced in several ways.