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Definition of Abjecting
1. abject [v] - See also: abject
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abjecting
Literary usage of Abjecting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The poetical works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser (1866)
"... abjecting, th' earth with his faire forhead strooke: Which the bold Virgin
seeing gan apply Fit medcine to his griefe, and spake thus ..."
2. Polydore Vergil's English History, from an Early Translation Preserved Among by Polydore Vergil, Henry Ellis (1846)
"... abjecting the Romaine yoke, created him kinge. After which time there were
manie conflictes made with him ..."
3. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"What phrases of abjecting themselves, in respect of the prince, can exceed David's
humble expressing of himself to Saul ; Or Daniel's magnifying the king, ..."
4. Dodd's Church History of England from the Commencement of the Sixteenth by Hugh Tootell (1839)
"... I will dance, and abase myself more, than yet I have clone; and, abjecting
myself in my own eyes, I shall appear more glorious, with those hand-maids, ..."
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