abjecture

English

Etymology

From Latin abiectura.

Noun

abjecture (plural abjectures)

  1. abjection; forlornness
    • 1876, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters‎, volume 3:
      But he had none of the assumed, servile, oriental abjectures that leads man to revile himself as a worthless worm of the dust

Latin

Participle

abjectūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of abjectūrus
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