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English
Etymology
From Middle English abaisshment, from Middle French abaissement (“astonishment”) alteration of esbaissement, from esbaiss + -ment.[1] Compare French ébahissement. Equivalent to abash + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
abashment (countable and uncountable, plural abashments)
- The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [2]
1768, Henry Brooke, chapter 13, in The Fool of Quality, volume 3, Dublin, pages 35–36:On my appearing her Spirits again took the Alarm. She scarce ventured a Glance toward me. 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.
1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1970, Book 2, p. 185:“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.
2014, Don Gutteridge, chapter 8, in Death of a Patriot, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 104:[…] Marc, who well knew the pangs and abashments of romantic love, recognized the emotions here as genuine and heartfelt and was encouraged.
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 (fi)
- Irish: cotadh m
- Italian: confusione (it), imbarazzo (it), turbamento (it)
- Manx: nearey f
- Polish: zmieszanie (pl) n, zakłopotanie (pl) n
- 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)
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References
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 2
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abashment”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.