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nonabject en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + abject.

Meanings

1. Not abject.
   • Specifically the model for Spivak's subaltern is an indigenous woman in a nonabject state in British-colonized India who is silenced in several ways. 2019, Carlos Riobó, Caught Between the Lines:
   • Similarly, while the law abolished formal distinctions, social norms and mores were slower to change, on the part of erstwhile senmin and nonabject people alike. 2014, Joseph D. Hankins, Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan, page 21:
   • Isn't that the thing about us? That we try to create meaning through a struggle of recognizing the nonabject in us, in recognizing that what exists in the first case is the desire to cooperate? 1998, Alison Leigh Brown, Subjects of Deceit: A Phenomenology of Lying, page 79:
   • "Exalted" and "impoverished" forms of life impose an equally "insuperable gap" between themselves and the rest of humanity—the cause of unparalleled terror in the nonabject, nondivine ordinary human being. 2015, James M. Decker, Indrek Männiste, Henry Miller: New Perspectives, page 68:

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