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What is an abjection?

What is an abjection? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
  2. (obsolete, chiefly figuratively) Something cast off; garbage. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]
  3. (obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down. [Attested from the early 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
  4. (obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.]
  5. (biology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
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Today the far right uses the unconscious urges of gender-sex abomination and abjection toward Others.
Understanding her dance has rested upon a binary that relegates ballet to a position of abjection, impurity and ugliness.
Standing firmly on the side of the poor, Bloy embraced the Beatitudes ' inversions, rewriting abjection as election.
Immediately we turn to expressions of hope and faith, of God's history of faithfulness, before turning to words of abjection and humility.
This sublimeness combines with their abjection to overwhelm them and raise them up.
His intensely physical lead performance careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.

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