Sunday, June 7, 2009

Abject

ab·ject
adj.
1. Brought low in condition or status.
2. Being of the most contemptible kind
3. Being of the most miserable kind; wretched
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[Middle English, outcast, from Latin abiectus, past participle of abicere, to cast away :ab-, from; see ab-1 + iacere, to throw; see y- in Indo-European roots.]
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