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countable and uncountable, plural abjections
A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. examples
(obsolete, chiefly figuratively) Something cast off; garbage.
(obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
(obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection.
(sociology) The fact of being marginalized as deviant. quotations
The disclosure of tolerance's hidden phobic lining fits in well with queer theory's embrace of the abject as exhorted by Michael Warner, David Halperin, and Lee Edelman. Embracing difference or culturally ascribed abjection with the aim of overcoming or dissipating it would be both naive and ineffective.
2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, page 98
(biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.