Both Uses of
abject
in
Middlemarch
- Mr. Bulstrode's sickly body, shattered by the agitations he had gone through since the last evening, made him feel abjectly in the power of this loud invulnerable man.†
Chpt 5 *
- No sooner had Lydgate begun to represent this step to himself as the easiest than there was a reaction of anger that he—he who had long ago determined to live aloof from such abject calculations, such self-interested anxiety about the inclinations and the pockets of men with whom he had been proud to have no aims in common—should have fallen not simply to their level, but to the level of soliciting them.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(abject) extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)