Lewis & Short

abjectĭo, ōnis, f. [abicio].

  1. * I. A throwing away or rejecting: figurarum (opp. additio), Quint. 9, 3, 18.
  2. * II. Abjectio animi, dejection, despondency (joined h. l. with debilitatio), Cic. Pis. 36, 88.