Both Uses
abject
in
Wuthering Heights
(Edited)
- Tell your master, Nelly, that I never, in all my life, met with such an abject thing as she is.
p. 110.4 *abject = extremely miserable
- Rise, and don't degrade yourself into an abject reptile — DON'T!
p. 193.8abject = extremely low and submissive
Definitions:
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(1)
(abject) extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)