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abjectness|ˈæbdʒɪktnɪs| [f. abject a. + -ness.] Abject or downcast condition; depression, abasement, degradation, humiliation, servility.
1599Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 160 A timorous very base mindednesse and abjectnesse. 1682Burnet Rights of Princes Pref. 96 By the abjectness of their stile. 1788Burke Sp. agt. Warr. Hast. Wks. XIII. 271 In this humiliation and abjectness of guilt, he comes here. 1870Lowell Study Windows 229 He could look to God without abjectness, and on man without contempt. |