abashment
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
abashment
- The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
- 1540, Myles Coverdale (translator), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, Deuteronomy 28[.28]
- And the lorde shall smyte the with madnesse, and blyndnesse & abashment of herte.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 8, p. 521,
- For her faint hart was with the frosen cold
- Benumbd so inly, that her wits nigh fayld,
- And all her sences with abashment quite were quayld.
- 1768, Henry Brooke (writer), The Fool of Quality, Dublin: for the author, Volume 3, Chapter 13, pp. 35-36,
- On my appearing her Spirits again took the Alarm. She scarce ventured a Glance toward me. I was greatly pained by the Abashment under which I saw she laboured, and I hastened to relieve myself as well as her from the Distress.
- 1940, Richard Wright (author), Native Son, London: Jonathan Cape, 1970, Book 2, p. 185,
- “Did he say he would let you meet some white women if you joined the reds?”
- He knew that sex relations between blacks and whites were repulsive to most white men.
- “Nawsuh,” he said, simulating abashment.
- 2014, Don Gutteridge (writer), Death of a Patriot, New York: Simon & Schuster, Chapter 8, p. 104,
- […] Marc, who well knew the pangs and abashments of romantic love, recognized the emotions here as genuine and heartfelt and was encouraged.
- 1540, Myles Coverdale (translator), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, Deuteronomy 28[.28]
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