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abjection

  • /æbˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃn̩/

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From Middle English abjeccioun, from either Middle French abjection or Late Latin abiectiōn-, from Latin abiectus (“cast down”).

* See abject.

noun abjections

  1. countable, uncountable 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
  2. countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable Something cast off; garbage.
  3. countable, obsolete, uncountable The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down. The abjection of the king and his realm.
  4. countable, obsolete, uncountable The act of casting off; rejection.
  5. countable, uncountable The fact of being marginalized as deviant. 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 ineffec
  6. countable, uncountable The act of dispersing or casting off spores.

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noun a low or downcast condition

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"abjection." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/abjection. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{abjection_2026,
  title = {abjection},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/abjection},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}