Both Uses

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He did not know whether to dart through the door to freedom or collapse on the bed to fall in love with her and place himself abjectly at her mercy again.†
Chpt 38 *

abjectly = in an extremely negative manner -- often implying extreme hopelessness, misery, shame, or desperation
'Mind your own business,' the man barked gruffly, lifting his stick as though he might beat her too, and the woman retreated sheepishly with an abject and humiliated air.†
Chpt 39

abject = extreme

Definitions:

(1) (abject)
extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)