Synonyms for abjection

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ab-jek-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : æbˈdʒɛk ʃən

Top 10 synonyms for abjection

Other synonyms for the word abjection

Définition of abjection

Origin : early 15c., from Old French abjection (14c.), from Latin abjectionem (nominative abjectio) "dejection, despondency," literally "a throwing away," noun of action from past participle stem of abicere (see abject).

As in poverty : noun want; extreme need, often financial
As in meanness : noun the quality of being mean
As in wretchedness : noun misery
As in impecuniosity : noun poverty
As in impecuniousness : noun poverty
As in impoverishment : noun poverty
As in neediness : noun poverty
As in pennilessness : noun poverty
As in penuriousness : noun poverty
As in depression : noun low spirits; despair

Example sentences :

By her silence, her abjection, her suppression, he shall prevail: not otherwise.
Extract from : « Browning's Heroines » by Ethel Colburn Mayne

This sublimeness combines with their abjection to overwhelm them and raise them up.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of Victor Hugo » by Victor Hugo

There is in the young girl all the abjection of the cad and of the school-boy.
Extract from : « Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry » by Charles Baudelaire

He wanted in that abjection to triumph over the entire East.
Extract from : « Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern » by Edgar Saltus

For in my abjection, I own I clutch at straws, miserably anxious for support.
Extract from : « The Gateless Barrier » by Lucas Malet

Finally his failure and his shame had crushed him into abjection.
Extract from : « What Will People Say? » by Rupert Hughes

It is a disgrace to thee to go vagabonding about in this abjection.
Extract from : « Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp » by John Payne

Tante's tears, her words and attitude of abjection, dispersed the nightmare horror.
Extract from : « Tante » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury.
Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells

Abjection is not the result of the faithful discharge of duty, however trying the circumstances may be.
Extract from : « England, Canada and the Great War » by Louis-Georges Desjardins

Antonyms for abjection

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