abjection

plural abjections

1. countableuncountableA low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.First known use First attested from around (1350 to 1470).

   an abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever

2. countablefigurativelyobsoleteuncountableSomething cast off; garbage.First known use Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16ᵗʰ century.
3. countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.First known use Attested from the early 16ᵗʰ century until the mid 17ᵗʰ century.

   The abjection of the king and his realm.

4. countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of casting off; rejection.First known use Attested from the early 17ᵗʰ century until the mid 17ᵗʰ century.
5. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe fact of being marginalized as deviant.

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   The disclosure of tolerance's hidden phobic lining fits in well with queer theory's embrace of the abject as exhorted by Michael Warner, David Halperin, and Lee Edelman. Embracing difference or culturally ascribed abjection with the aim of overcoming or dissipating it would be both naive and ineffective.

   2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 98

6. countableuncountablebiologyThe act of dispersing or casting off spores.