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[ UK /æbd‍ʒˈɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a low or downcast state
    each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement

How To Use abjection In A Sentence

  • The Vera Icon clearly shows the humiliation and abjection of the incarnate Christ.
  • The struggle between abundance and abjection is an age-old story that has left physical and psychic scars on the watery landscape of the Delta.
  • Since ‘abjection is coextensive with the Symbolic Order,’ any representation of that order can be scrutinized for its hidden presence.
  • The term “sensation novels” emerges as a profoundly apt encapsulation of the qualities of strangeness this process of abjection is locked onto (and one that is a precursor of “genre fiction” and comparable with “coloured people” in its disregard for the sensationalist content of writers like Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë and countless others in the canon). What is Literary Fiction?
  • Standing firmly on the side of the poor (if only because he himself lived in abject poverty), Bloy embraced the Beatitudes ' inversions, rewriting abjection as election.
  • But if a story simply exploits that causal relationship rather than interrogating it, representation of abjection can shade into perpetration of abjection. Kings
  • [T] aken as a whole, cogent piece of work, Paris makes an underwhelming survey of the state of the art house - nothing here even whiffs at the rarified abjection found in Antonioni's segment in 1953's similarly conceived, Rome-set L'Amore in citta," writes Nick Pinkerton at indieWIRE. GreenCine Daily: Paris je t'aime.
  • He is slumping in despair and abjection, a feeling he is becoming increasingly used to during these days of prosecution evidence. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • This is so, he concluded, because for the generality of humankind death comes as an imposition: it is a form of abjection to which all must submit with resignation, and which all must accept because they have no choice.
  • Understanding her dance has rested upon a binary that relegates ballet to a position of abjection, impurity and ugliness.
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