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abashing

adj

Definitions

  1. Tending to abash

    Tending to abash; causing embarrassment or the loss of self-possession.

    • […] many young People have by the grace of the Lord been prepared for full Communion, and have taken hold of the Covenant, confessing, that they have felt the impression of that Word upon that abashing occasion spoken:
    • Why these fair girls are so stared at by the men, and the young fellows, now-a-days, have a damn’d impudent stare with them,—’tis very abashing to a woman—very distressing!
    • 1814, Frances Burney, The Wanderer, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 166, […] the mixt party there assembled, was prepared to survey her with a curiosity which she found extremely abashing.

  2. present participle and gerund of abash

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA