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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ab·jec·tion /æbˈʤɛkʃən/ 名詞
 卑鄙, 落魄

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ab·jec·tion n.
 1. The act of bringing down or humbling. “The abjection of the king and his realm.”
 2. The state of being rejected or cast out. [R.]
    An abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever.   --Jer. Taylor.
 3. A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
    That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible?   --Hooker.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 abjection
      n : a low or downcast state; "each confession brought her into
          an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken [syn: abasement,
           degradation]