Definition of Blushings

1. blushing [n] - See also: blushing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blushings

blusher
blushers
blushes
blushest
blushet
blusheth
blushets
blushful
blushfully
blushfulness
blushing
blushing(a)
blushing mushroom
blushingly
blushings (current term)
blushless
blusht
blushy
bluster
blustered
blusterer
blusterers
blusteriness
blustering
blustering(a)
blusteringly
blusterings
blusterous
blusters

Literary usage of Blushings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... 3" Difference of pulse, neglect of business, want of sleep, often sighs, blushings, when there is any speech of their mistress, are manifest signs. ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"... difference of pulse, neglect of business, want of sleep, often sighs, blushings." The pulse is a more certain guide than the countenance. ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"... difference of pulse, neglect of business, want of sleep, often sighs, blushings." The pulse is a more certain guide than the countenance. ..."

4. Bracebridge Hall: Or, The Humorists, a Medley by Washington Irving (1867)
"She must have no painting but blushings; her brightness must be purity, and she must shine round about with sweetnesses and friendship ; and she shall be ..."

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