"abashing" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more abashing [comparative], most abashing [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} abashing (comparative more abashing, superlative most abashing)
  1. Tending to abash; causing embarrassment or the loss of self-possession. Synonyms: bewildering, disconcerting Derived forms: abashingly
    Sense id: en-abashing-en-adj-s1SoQEy1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} abashing
  1. present participle and gerund of abash Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: abash
    Sense id: en-abashing-en-verb-CcLPFYFz
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          "ref": "1684, Increase Mather, chapter 12, in An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, Boston: Joseph Browning, pages 366–367:",
          "text": "[…] many young People have by the grace of the Lord been prepared for full Communion, and have taken hold of the Covenant, confessing, that they have felt the impression of that Word upon that abashing occasion spoken:",
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          "text": "1814, Frances Burney, The Wanderer, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 166,\n[…] the mixt party there assembled, was prepared to survey her with a curiosity which she found extremely abashing."
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          "ref": "1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 24, in Arrowsmith, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 265:",
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