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Webster 1913 Edition

Abashment

A-bash′ment

(-ment)

,

Noun.

[Cf. F.

ébahissement

.]

The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

Webster 1828 Edition

Abashment

ABASH'MENT

,

Noun.

Confusion from shame. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

abashment

abashment

English

Noun

abashment ‎(plural abashments)

The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]^[2]

Translations

the state of being abashed; confusion from shame

Bulgarian: засраменост ‎(zasramenost), смущение (bg) ‎(smuštenie)
Dutch: verlegenheid (nl) f, moeilijk parket
Finnish: häpeä (fi), hämminki
Portuguese: confusão (pt), vergonha (pt)

Romanian: jenă (ro) f, rușine (ro) f, rușinare (ro) f
Russian: расте́рянность (ru) f ‎(rastérjannostʹ), смуще́ние (ru) n ‎(smuščénije), замеша́тельство (ru) n ‎(zamešátelʹstvo)

References

↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), page 2
↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 2