[
UK
/æbdʒˈɛkʃən/
]
NOUN
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a low or downcast state
each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement
How To Use abjection In A Sentence
- Whether a phrase like “the rape of the countryside” trivialises rape or not it is not part of the distinct process of abjection that results in racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise asininely bigoted slurs. On Profanity: 4
- The ‘free markets’ of this New Classicism have not stopped the abjection and exclusion of others; instead, social abominations have intensified.
- And it is long past time that all segregation was ended, not just for those of us I am calling queer, not just for the gays and lesbians, the trans and bisexual, the intersexed and asexual, not just for all those of whatever sexual orientation or gender identity, but for people of colour, for people of disability, for any and all whose absence from our screens is due to their abjection. Archive 2009-08-01
- Every night I sat beweeping our separation and that which I suffered, since thy departure, of humiliation and ignominy, of abjection and misery. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Today the far right uses the unconscious urges of gender-sex abomination and abjection toward Others.
- This tale of ‘falling from grace,’ from divinity to abjection, of the subjection of feminine powers to the reprobation and constraints of the patriarchy society seems to be a universal trope.
- While this bond structures the confession as a dialogue, it also encourages, and sometimes manipulates, the intimacy, dependence, and abjection of the confessant.
- Thinking of it as abjection of what is or was a part of one’s self is part of the reason I suspect the term gathers a lot of its meaning from its use in “literary sf” or “literary fantasy”. War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…
- Every night I sat beweeping our separation and that which I suffered, since thy departure, of humiliation and ignominy, of abjection and misery. Arabian nights. English
- He can't bear the fact that ‘the deception and abjection that filled his own soul was what he saw also in others, always.’