English

Adverb

abjectly ‎(comparative more abjectly, superlative most abjectly)

1. With great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]

   I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.‎

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again;

Antonyms

• (somewhat) proudly

Related terms

• abject
• abjection
• abjectness

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References

1. ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 5