The Only Use
abject
in
The Call of the Wild
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- Pike, who had been trembling abjectly, took heart at this open mutiny, and sprang upon his overthrown leader.†
p. 60.6abjectly = in an extremely negative manner -- often implying extreme hopelessness, misery, shame, or desperation
Definitions:
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(1)
(abject) extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)