[f. ABJECT a. + -NESS.] Abject or downcast condition; depression, abasement, degradation, humiliation, servility.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Speculum (1632), 160. A timorous very base mindednesse and abjectnesse.
1682. Burnet, Rights of Princes, Pref. 96. By the abjectness of their stile.
1788. Burke, Sp. agt. Warr. Hast., Wks. XIII. 271. In this humiliation and abjectness of guilt, he comes here.
1870. Lowell, Study Windows, 229. He could look to God without abjectness, and on man without contempt.
