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What does abashment mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
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He tells that story, without abashment, with pride almost, but then being who he is he can get away with it.
If abashed at heart, at least the world should be uninformed of that abashment.
He stopped and crossed his eyes, his expression conveying abashment.
As soon as Ned and I could recover from our abashment, we also said good morning.
Crimsoning, Alrek fell from his hill of scorn to the valley of abashment.
If the latter is the case, that might be cause for at least a slight sense of abashment, if not shame.

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