Word Meanings - GROVELER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who grovels; an abject wretch.

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• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• WRETCHEDLY
  In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
• ABJECTEDNESS
  A very abject or low condition; abjectness. Boyle.
• ABJECTLY
  Meanly; servilely.
• WRETCH
  wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy
• ABJECTNESS
  The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.
• ABJECTION
  1. The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe. 2. The state of being rejected or cast out. An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor. 3. A low
• WRETCHFUL
  Wretched. Wyclif.
• WRETCHEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer.
• WRETCHLESS
  Reckless; hence, disregarded. -- Wretch"less*ly, adv. -- Wretch"less*ness, n. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor. J. Webster.
• WRETCHED
  1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" Milton. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the