All 3 Uses of
abject
in
1984 by Orwell
- The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years.
p. 44..9abject = extremely submissive
- All three had written long, abject articles in The Times, analysing the reasons for their defection and promising to make amends.
p. 76..0
- We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission.
p. 255..1 *
Definition:
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(abject) extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)