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Abject vs Expel - What's the difference?

abject | expel |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between abject and expel

is that abject is (obsolete) to cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase while expel is (obsolete) to fire (a bullet, arrow etc).

As verbs the difference between abject and expel

is that abject is (obsolete) to cast off or out; to reject while expel is to eject or erupt.

As an adjective abject

is (obsolete) rejected; cast aside
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As a noun abject

is a person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast .

abject

English

Etymology 1

* From (etyl) .

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
  • Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
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  • Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit.
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  • Showing utter hopelessness; helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
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  • Usage notes
    * Nouns to which "abject" is often applied: poverty, fear, terror, submission, misery, failure, state, condition, apology, humility, servitude, manner, coward.
    Synonyms
    * beggarly, contemptible, cringing, degraded, groveling, ignoble, mean, mean-spirited, slavish, vile, worthless

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast.
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  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) abjecten, derived from the adjective form.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
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  • (obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
  • (John Donne)

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    expel

    English

    Verb

  • To eject or erupt.
  • (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  • * , II.xi:
  • But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell .
  • To remove from membership.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Angelique Chrisafis
  • , title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism, work=Guardian citation , page=, passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}
  • To deport.
  • Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), turf out

    Antonyms

    * impel