abjectedadj.n.
/abˈdʒɛktᵻd/, U.S. /æbˈdʒɛktəd/ Now rare.
That has been cast off or rejected; cast down, dispirited. Also occasionally as n.: an outcast, an exile; (with the) abjected people as a class. Cf. abject adj. and abject n.
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?1555 T. Paynell tr. J. L. Vives Office of Husband sig. Sj Of what wyll and mind shal we thinke that woman to be, that seeth her selfe a companyon & felow in heauy & greuous thinges, and in al solaces & pleasures an outcast and abiected.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ff2 Such abiected creatures as my sielie selfe.
1609 F. Greville Trag. Mustapha iii. v. Chorus sig. F Lift vp the hopes of thy abiected Prophets.
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. lxxxiii. 449 The abjected [obtains] a Command or Office in some other Country.
1679 J. Bancroft Trag. Sertorius i. i. 1 Bless the Man Which, from his Infancy to Autumn years, Subject to every blast, has known the Fate Of greatness, or abjected Poverty.
1800 J. Murdock Beau Metamorphized i. 31 In defending our rights against an arrogant nation, Whose design is to place us in an abjected station.
1844 T. Hawkins Wars Jehovah i. 35 The abjected opposed Distrust.
1987 Representations 17 123 The wracking and politically expensive divorce of the tightly zoned and abjected female body from the enfranchised female voice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.n.?1555- for whon that
- for why
- for why that
- for wilnesful
- for wood
- for world
- for worship
- for wreak of
- for year and year
- for year into year
- for yonks
- for yore
- for your behalf
- for your ears only
- for your eyes only
- for þan
- for'ard on!
- for, , of, to a certainty
- for, , of, to certainty
- for, at obs, of, to a certainty
- for, at obs, of, to certainty
- for, before, fore george
- for, in ensample
- for, in, of, to a certainty
- for, in, of, to certainty