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abirritation |
abirritative |
abit |
abject |
abjectedness |
abjection
| abjectly
| abjectness
| abjudge
| abjudicate
| abjudication
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abjection
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun abjection has 1 sense
- abjection(n = noun.state) abasement, degradation - a low or downcast state; "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement" is a kind of humiliation
has particulars: decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degeneration, depth
CIDE DICTIONARY
abjection, n. [F. abjection, L. abjectio.].
- The act of bringing down or humbling. Joye. [1913 Webster]
- The state of being rejected or cast out. [1913 Webster]"An abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever." [1913 Webster]
- A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. [1913 Webster]"That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible?" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
abjection, n. a state of misery or degradation.
Etymology
ME f. OF abjection or L abjectio (as ABJECT)
THESAURUS
abjection
abandon, abandonment, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravation, depravedness, depravity, dissoluteness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, profligacy, reprobacy, rottenness, turpitudeROGET THESAURUS
abjection
Improbity
N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.
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