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A condition of severe misery, degradation, or loss of dignity.
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- social abjection
- a state of abjection
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The prisoners’ abjection was visible in the way they avoided one another’s eyes.
He mistook her forced abjection for willing obedience.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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