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abashment

UK/əˈbæʃ.mənt//əˈbæʃ.mənt/

abashment noun: the state of feeling abashed; embarrassment from shame; timid shyness as from one's modesty being challenged.

Noun

abashment (countable and uncountable, plural abashments)

  1. The state of feeling abashed; embarrassment from shame; timid shyness as from one's modesty being challenged.
    • And the lorde shall smyte the with madnesse, and blyndnesse & abashment of herte.1540, Myles Coverdale, transl., The Byble in Englyshe, London: Thomas Berthelet, Deuteronomy 28[.28]
    • 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 521

abashment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

abashment in Tamil

கலக்கம், வெட்கத்தினால் ஏற்படும் மனக்குழப்பம்

abashment in Urdu

جھینپ, خواری, پشیمانی, شرمندگی, ذلت

abashment in Bengali

লজ্জিত হওয়ার অবস্থা

abashment in Malayalam

പരിഭ്രമിപ്പിക്കപ്പെട്ട അവസ്ഥ, ലജ്ജിതമായ അവസ്ഥ

Examples of abashment in a sentence

  • 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.1768, Henry Brooke, chapter 13, in The Fool of Quality, volume 3, Dublin, pages 35–36:
  • […] Marc, who well knew the pangs and abashments of romantic love, recognized the emotions here as genuine and heartfelt and was encouraged.2014, Don Gutteridge, chapter 8, in Death of a Patriot, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 104:

Forms of abashment

pluralabashments

Origin of abashment

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

Questions about abashment

What does abashment mean?
Abashment means the state of feeling abashed; embarrassment from shame; timid shyness as from one's modesty being challenged.
What is abashment in Tamil?
Abashment in Tamil is கலக்கம், வெட்கத்தினால் ஏற்படும் மனக்குழப்பம். See Abashment meaning in Tamil.
How do you use abashment in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is abashment?
Abashment is a noun.
How do you pronounce abashment?
Abashment is pronounced /əˈbæʃ.mənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of abashment?
The plural of abashment is abashments.

Words near abashment in the dictionary

  1. Abashev
  2. abashing
  3. abashingly
  4. abashless
  5. abashlessly
  6. abashment
  7. abashments
  8. abasht
  9. abasi
  10. abasia
  11. abasia-astasia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abashment (page history and authors); abashment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abashment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abashment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abashment (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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