abjection

Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.
Si ta loi ne faisait mes délices, déjà j'aurais péri dans ma misère.
This makes all the more incongruous the abjection into which he falls when, blinded by passion for Bathsheba, he takes her from her husband, one of his most faithful warriors, and then coldly orders that he be murdered.
Tout à l’opposé de l’abjection dans laquelle il tombe quand, aveuglé par sa passion pour Bethsabée, il l’arrache à son époux, un de ses plus fidèles guerriers, et ordonne ensuite froidement l’assassinat de ce dernier.
The economic measures of the young president helped get thousands of families out of abjection and extreme poverty.
Les mesures économiques du jeune président ont aidé à sortir des milliers de familles de l’abjection et de l’extrême pauvreté.
Whence comes this shameful degradation of heart and mind to which so many fall victims, if not from the misery and abjection into which property plunges them?
D'où vient cette honteuse dégradation du coeur et de l'esprit dont nous voyons tant de victimes, si ce n'est de la misère et de l'abjection où la propriété les rejette ?
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