Adjective : abject poverty. ,an abject coward.    From Dictionary.com. 

The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5: The Philomaths] Reference

I never saw such a picture of abjectness as my man presented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference

Thou hadst with great abjectness, solicited only five villages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

From this state of abjectness I was raised by a young woman of my own class.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference

They corrupt and subject human beings to the worst state of abjectness, and absurdity.    From Wordnik.com.  [CEREMONY HONORING THE JULIO ANTONIO MELLA CANE-] Reference

Camilo could never be measured or compared with the moral abjectness of a simple traitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEAKS AT UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA] Reference

Billy moaned and groaned in the abjectness of humility and surrender, and let her have her way.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER V] Reference

Juniper Graves 'grand and jaunty bearing a moment before, and his present utter crawling abjectness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference

These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the authority of the executioner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of the Gods] Reference

Never, perhaps, was the paradoxical union of pride and abjectness, more strongly exhibited than on this occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Italian] Reference

Nathaniel gazed at her with interest while Eden and Rex grinned and Kenneth apologized with exaggerated abjectness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

When he did it was with a child's plea for pity, and the abjectness of his tone was horrible, coming from a man of his girth and power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

An abjectness of heart, of which, had I been capable, I should have despised myself as much as I might have expected you would despise me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

The abjectness of his position was not merely physical but mental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Equality] Reference

Her sense of this kindness was more and more touched with abjectness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story Reversed 1898] Reference

When a wild animal is subdued to abjectness, all its interest is gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldport Days] Reference

But at heart she was bitter -- at her poverty, abjectness, and dependence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Created Legend] Reference

"I'm not at all sure about him or his abjectness," replied my uneasy conscience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference

There seemed to be no limit to the abjectness of some of the tuft-hunters in Society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metropolis] Reference

She fought against it, but the thought of Ditmar reduced to abjectness gained ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

An abjectness of character, likewise, is disgustful and contemptible in another view.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals] Reference

I knew then that I could not alter it even were I to go all the lengths of abjectness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

Her gaze, coldly comprehending, implied familiarity with the abjectness of human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

It is not by pride that I hold out, but by abjectness: there's no dignite dans le malheur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian] Reference

It was only want of courage, and a general dismay and abjectness of spirit upon all our men.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900] Reference

At the sound of Elsa's voice calling: "Ortrud, where are you?" she assumes the last abjectness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

We have long enough remained in a state of abjectness; it is time to labor for our advancement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference

Badly housed, badly clad, badly fed, and hardly taught at all, the very poor were in a state of abjectness unfit for dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Manx Nation - 1891] Reference

But how could she speak words which would seem to him to be spoken only to remind him of the abjectness of his submission to her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference

Arnuf was at their head, and sunk to abjectness by his despair, in a voice which terror rendered piercing, he called aloud for mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

The anguish of those moments, during which my brain seemed melting, or the abjectness of my sense of helplessness, how can I describe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking Backward 2000-1887] Reference

So, when they were reported to the brothers, they came themselves, and fulfilled the old dream by falling down before him in abjectness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference

Hence it is that in all the countries subject to the system there is an abjectness of spirit not to be found in other parts of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished] Reference