abjection
noun/æbˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃn̩/
Etymology From Middle English abjeccioun, from either Middle French abjection or Late Latin abiectiōn-, from Latin abiectus (“cast down”). * See abject.
1
A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
- an abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever
2
Figuratively, Obsolete Something cast off; garbage.
3
Obsolete The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
- The abjection of the king and his realm.
4
Obsolete The act of casting off; rejection.
5
Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, Sociology The fact of being marginalized as deviant.
- 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: