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Abashment   Listen
noun
Abashment  n.  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... compassed full knowledge concerning what had befallen her, so she returned him nor answer nor address, and she was overwhelmed with shame and confusion, and waxed changed and was well nigh falling upon the floor. Presently she sat down in abashment before her sire by reason of the bigness of her belly, but he bowed in obedience before the power of Almighty Allah; and they two ceased not conversing until fall of night, when each and every of the handmaids had sought her own chamber that she might sleep therein. As ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton



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