Meaning of abjection | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
   countable, uncountable
2. Something cast off; garbage.
   countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable
3. The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. The act of casting off; rejection.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. The fact of being marginalized as deviant.
   countable, uncountable
6. The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
   countable, uncountable

Translations

Examples

“an abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever”

“The abjection of the king and his realm.”

“The disclosure of tolerance's hidden phobic lining fits in well with queer theory's embrace of the abject as exhorted by Michael Warner, David Halperin, and Lee Edelman. Embracing difference or culturally ascribed abjection with the aim of overcoming or dissipating it would be both naive and ineffective.”

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