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Debasement vs Abjection - What's the difference?

debasement | abjection |

As nouns the difference between debasement and abjection

is that debasement is the act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality while abjection is a low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation .

debasement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality.
  • * 1832 , , "Bon Bon":
    • His large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw not altogether unworthy of a dog.
  • * 1912 , , The Reef , ch. 33:
    • She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.
  • * 2009 , Gilbert Cruz, " The Many Faces of Addiction (Book review of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life'' by Benoit Denizet-Lewis)," ''Time , 12 Jan.:
    • There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.
  • The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

    • Translations

    (The act of debasing or the state of being debased) (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) (The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom)

    abjection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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. "
  • (obsolete, chiefly, figuratively) Something cast off; garbage.
  • (obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
    • "The abjection of the king and his realm. "
  • (obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection.
  • (biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.

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