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Objectional vs Abject - What's the difference?

objectional | abject |

As adjectives the difference between objectional and abject

is that objectional is objectionable while abject is rejected; cast aside.

As a noun abject is

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

As a verb abject is

to cast off or out; to reject.

objectional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • objectionable
  • *{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Rafael Palma, title=The Woman and the Right to Vote, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=There is much talk of their objectional features and dangers for the established order of things. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=James Cardinal Gibbons, title=The Faith of Our Fathers, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The Puritan toleration lasted six years, and included all but Papists, Prelatists and those who held objectional doctrines. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1883, author=Rudolf Schmid, title=The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=But the question is, whether those Darwinians who drew these conclusions were by their scientific investigations obliged to draw them, or whether they did not rather reach their religious and ethical view of the world by quite other ways, and whether they did not in a wholly arbitrary and irresponsible manner make extensive use of Darwinism in this anti-religious and ethically objectional direction--a fact which we shall try to prove in the last part of our investigation. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, title=Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The difficulty in all these cares is to steer clear of some objectional theory. }}

    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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