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Definition of Abashed
1. Adjective. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious. "Was embarrassed by her child's tantrums"
Definition of Abashed
1. Adjective. Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed. ¹
2. Verb. (past of abash) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abashed
1. abash [v] - See also: abash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abashed
Literary usage of Abashed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"If this man who ' was not man,' had been now living, and if ' unbelief stood
abashed at his presence,' we should have recommended the experiment to be tried ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1903)
"... the astonished chatelain and his guests, rebuked them for their shameless
sacrilege. Not in the least abashed, the SCHLOSS FORST, THE RIVER' ETSCH, ..."
3. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"take to her. I never touched so pure and so conscience- clear a heart. My own is
almost abashed to think itself beloved by such a creature. ..."
4. The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatness; Or, The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper (1903)
"In good faith they pleased me nothing, nor I wist not what to say, for I was
abashed of his answer. And I see no better suit than to Almighty God, ..."
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