All 3 Uses of
abject
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- He found her in the dark bedrooms of captured towns, especially in the most abject ones, and he would make her materialize in the smell of dry blood on the bandages of the wounded, in the instantaneous terror of the danger of death, at all times and in all places.†
Chpt 8abject = extreme
- The man who made it possible, a foreigner, lost his serenity forever, became involved in the sloughs of abjection and misery, and years later was cut to pieces by a train after he had fallen asleep on the tracks.†
Chpt 10 *
- —Always, at every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought about Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones.†
Chpt 11abject = extreme
Definition:
extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)