abjectednessn.
/abˈdʒɛktᵻdnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌæbˈdʒɛktədnəs/ The state or condition of being cast down or dispirited; abasement, abjectness.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > humiliated condition
powderc1300
dusta1340
abjection?a1425
abasement1567
abjectness1574
dejectedness1608
abjectedness1660
crestfallenness1859
1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love 69 [Christ] from the height of Glory..sunk Himself to the bottom of Abjectedness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.
1694 Ld. Delamere Wks. 56 [James II] humbled himself to those very people whom before he would not admit into his presence, and with so much abjectedness made an offer of their Charter and Franchises to the City of London and other Corporations.
1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 10 Mar. in D. F. MacCarthy Shelley's Early Life (1872) xi. 290 The rich grind the poor into abjectedness, and then complain that they are abject.
1857 E. Meeter Holland xii. 223 Poverty is not there what it is in large manufacturing towns—absolute misery and abjectedness.
1923 San Antonio (Texas) Express 23 May 12/3 She led poor Weber a dance that brought him to a low state of abjectedness.
1989 Representations 25 34 Her body unfolds not just as object but as horizon and dimensionality, and it is the latter more than the former that lures us—not..into a fantasy of abjectedness, but into a moment of bodily sovereignty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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