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What is the difference between meanness and abjection?

meanness | abjection |

As nouns the difference between meanness and abjection

is that meanness is the condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess while abjection is a low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.

meanness

English

Alternative forms

* meaness

Noun

(es)
  • (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being ; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
    • This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison
  • A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness .

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    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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