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abashment

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9 lettersPronunciation /əˈbæʃ.mənt/Part of speech nounSorted aabehmnstStarts with AEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. feeling embarrassed due to modesty

Word origin

From Middle English abaisshment, from Middle French abaissement (“astonishment”) alteration of esbaissement, from esbaiss + -ment. Compare French ébahissement. Equivalent to abash + -ment.

Used in a sentence

  • And the lorde shall smyte the with madnesse, and blyndnesse & abashment of herte.
  • 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.
  • “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.

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