All 3 Uses
abject
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- 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. 76.1
- We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission.
p. 255.1 *
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)