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What does abash mean?

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  1. (transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 16th century.]
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Even out of date, his conscientious integrity ought to abash today's hordes of careering youngsters, whose idea of the future of civilization reaches little beyond the next art fair.
Nor did her presence in the least abash the boys, for they saw no impropriety in the act.
It is impossible to outface Milton, or to abash him with praise.
Divers flocks of clouds, camp-followers of the storm, could not abash her.
Her reticence in that respect, however, did not in the least abash Jesse.
That you are a princess does not abash me, but that you are you is enough to make me doubt my sanity as I ask you, my princess, to be mine.

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