What is the difference between abjection and abjectly?
abjection | abjectly | Related terms |
A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
(obsolete, chiefly, figuratively) Something cast off; garbage.
(obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
(obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection.
(biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
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With great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion.
* 1851 , , Moby-Dick
Abjection is a related term of abjectly.
As a noun abjection
is a low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation {{defdate|first attested from around (1350 to 1470)}}.As a adverb abjectly is
with great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion {{defdate|first attested around 1350 to 1470}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =5| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.abjection
English
Noun
(en noun)- "An abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. "
- "The abjection of the king and his realm. "
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abjectly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.
- So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again;
