Great Expectations vocabulary

I never, in all my life, met with such an abject thing as she is.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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She remembered his words, the expression of his face, that recalled an abject setter-dog, in the early days of their connection.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina

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public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed,

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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They can do what they like with me. I am abject.

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In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome at marriage festivals to light five wax tapers; nor was it permitted to kindle any more at the magnific nuptials of the most potent and wealthy, nor yet any fewer at the penurious weddings of the poorest and most abject of the world.

Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel

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That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, "It's more than that, Mum. Good again! Follow her up, Joseph!"