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(noun) a low or downcast state; degradation / (noun) the act of making abject; humbling rejection

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Cities full of cutting-edge industries imported from Europe punctuate a vastness where four-fifths of the people are peasants tied to the soil, in near-feudal abjection.

—p.28 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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a young woman's voluntary abjection of her subjectivity in the face of a violent sexual attack

on Brief Interview #20

—p.175 "Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference and the Body (165) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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