The phrase "an act of abject" is not complete and lacks context, but "abject" is an adjective that can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is extremely bad, unpleasant, or degrading, often in relation to a situation or condition.
Example: "The report highlighted an act of abject cruelty that shocked the community."
Alternatives: "an act of utter" or "a deed of extreme".
We immediately sense that these are not the vulnerable members of a defeated group laying down arms in an act of abject submission but, rather, still-proud fighters.
There is an especially touching scene from nine years later in which, following a celebrity-studded civil-rights fund-raiser in Paris, King, then a Nobel peace-prize winner, serves food to the assembled stars as "an exercise in humility, an act of abject gratitude to all these stars for coming out for him".
Seen in this light, Radcliffe's performance in 95-degree heat and stifling humidity was not an abject failure, but an act of desperate courage.
And, when the former Prime Minister of Singapore and his son, the deputy prime minister, threatened to sue for libel because of an article in the International Herald Tribune suggesting that the deputy prime minister had been appointed to his post in an act of nepotism, the paper, which is owned by the New York Times and the Washington Post, issued an abject public apology.
The French government has denounced an "abject act of terrorism" after a man with a previous terrorist conviction carried out a gruesome knife murder of a police commander and his partner at their home outside Paris in the presence of their three-year-old son.
He said people wanting to leave the EU wished to "wash their hands" of Europe's problems, such as the migration crisis and the threat of Isis, and leaving would be an "abject act of national retreat".
The attack was claimed by Islamic State and has been denounced by the government as "an abject act of terrorism".
No one suffered when there wasn't an outbreak of abject mania at the Facebook IPO.
"An abject act of terrorism was carried out yesterday in Magnanville," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said after an emergency government meeting, before visiting Les Mureaux, where the police commander worked.
A series of abject autumn results followed; three defeats and a draw against Fiji, just wasn't good enough.
