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As the world grows more affluent, our definition of abject poverty changes.abject = extreme
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The program was an abject failure.
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She grew up in abject poverty; though she didn't know it.
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When his underpants came down, it was with abject humiliation that he stood in the small, cool office. (source)
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Dobby went scurrying in after him, crouching at the hem of his cloak, a look of abject terror on his face. (source)abject = extreme (in a negative sense)
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With Salamander Army waiting abjectly for destruction, Leopard obligingly destroyed them. (source)abjectly = in an extremely negative manner (hopelessness, miserable, and shamed)
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Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. (source)Abject = extreme
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He kissed her, lightly at first, but they drew closer, and when their tongues touched, a disembodied part of himself was abjectly grateful, for he knew he now had a memory in the bank and would be drawing on it for months to come.† (source)abjectly = in an extremely negative manner -- often implying extreme hopelessness, misery, shame, or desperation
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In a frenzy he poured joyous abjectness on paper to send to her, and he went to bed purified, as a man is after sexual love.† (source)abjectness = extremeness of something negative -- perhaps implying extreme hopelessness, misery, shame, or desperationstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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All the abjection and self-hatred are designed, in the long run, solely for this end; unless they attain this end they do us little harm; and they may even do us good if they keep the man concerned with himself, and, above all, if self-contempt can be made the starting-point for contempt of other selves, and thus for gloom, cynicism, and cruelty.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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These bare feet, these bare arms, these rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be employed in the conquest of the ideal.† (source)abjectnesses = the state or degree of being extremely negative
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After that the British shouldn't remain in Holland: they should offer their most abject apologies to all the occupied countries, restore the Dutch East Indies to its rightful owner and then return, weakened and impoverished, to England. (source)abject = extreme
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He is abjectly terrified.† (source)abjectly = in an extremely negative manner -- often implying extreme hopelessness, misery, shame, or desperation
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And while Mrs. Anticol stayed pious, it was his idea of grand apostasy to drive to the reform synagogue on the high holidays and park his pink-eye nag among the luxurious, whirl-wired touring cars of the rich Jews who bared their heads inside as if they were attending a theater, a kind of abjectness in them that gave him grim entertainment to the end of his life.† (source)abjectness = extremeness of something negative -- perhaps implying extreme hopelessness, misery, shame, or desperation
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His abjection made Lancelot feel horrible.† (source)
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It was made up partially of hope and excitement, and partially of abject fear. (source)abject = extreme
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