abjectnessn.

Brit.

/ˈabdʒɛk(t)nəs/, U.S.

/ˈˌæbˈˌdʒɛk(t)nəs/

Forms: see abject adj. and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abject adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < abject adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier abjection n. N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ·bdʒėktnės) /ˈæbdʒɪktnɪs/.

Abject or downcast condition; abasement, degradation, humiliation, servility. Cf. abjectedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > humiliated condition

powderc1300

dusta1340

abjection?a1425

abasement1567

abjectness1574

dejectedness1608

abjectedness1660

crestfallenness1859

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) sig. **j/3 In prayer to alledge our own fraielty and abiectnesse is acceptable to God.

1605 E. Sandys Relation of Relig. sig. P3^v To proceed from a verie impious minde, and abiectnesse.

1625 J. Robinson Observ. lvii. 287 We see men, specially pressed with great burdens of temptations, in a kinde of abjectnes of minde.

1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) Pref. 96 By the abjectness of their stile.

1788 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1822) XIII. 271 In this humiliation and abjectness of guilt, he comes here.

1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria II. x For a woman to live with a man, for whom she can cherish neither affection nor esteem..is an abjectness of condition.

1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism vi. 167 Some congenial torrid climate—native to abjectness and slavery.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 229 He could look to God without abjectness, and on man without contempt.

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xii. 265 Her face was lifted, almost with pride, her attitude of formal abjectness a part of the pride.

2006 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 29 Aug. Its poor presented a picture of Third World abjectness despite a decades-old federal ‘war on poverty.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abjectness
释义	abjectnessn. Brit. /ˈabdʒɛk(t)nəs/, U.S. /ˈˌæbˈˌdʒɛk(t)nəs/ Forms: see abject adj. and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abject adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < abject adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier abjection n. N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ·bdʒėktnės) /ˈæbdʒɪktnɪs/. Abject or downcast condition; abasement, degradation, humiliation, servility. Cf. abjectedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > humiliated condition powderc1300 dusta1340 abjection?a1425 abasement1567 abjectness1574 dejectedness1608 abjectedness1660 crestfallenness1859 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) sig. *j/3 In prayer to alledge our own fraielty and abiectnesse is acceptable to God. 1605 E. Sandys Relation of Relig.* sig. P3^v To proceed from a verie impious minde, and abiectnesse. 1625 J. Robinson Observ. lvii. 287 We see men, specially pressed with great burdens of temptations, in a kinde of abjectnes of minde. 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) Pref. 96 By the abjectness of their stile. 1788 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1822) XIII. 271 In this humiliation and abjectness of guilt, he comes here. 1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria II. x For a woman to live with a man, for whom she can cherish neither affection nor esteem..is an abjectness of condition. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism vi. 167 Some congenial torrid climate—native to abjectness and slavery. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 229 He could look to God without abjectness, and on man without contempt. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xii. 265 Her face was lifted, almost with pride, her attitude of formal abjectness a part of the pride. 2006 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 29 Aug. Its poor presented a picture of Third World abjectness despite a decades-old federal ‘war on poverty.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1574
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