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abashed

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1. abashed - Adjective

2. abashed - Verb

4. abashed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Abash

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. Jean Henri Fabre

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. Boris Pasternak

This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart. John Aubrey

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss. John Milton

This Earl of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travel [for] 7 years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home, and said, 'My Lord, I had forgot the Fart. Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

felt abashed at the extravagant praise Source: Internet

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