Both Uses
abashed
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Young Goodman Brown
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- And yet, though the elder person was as simply clad as the younger, and as simple in manner too, he had an indescribable air of one who knew the world, and who would not have felt abashed at the governor's dinner table or in King William's court, were it possible that his affairs should call him thither.†
*abashed = embarrassed or self-conscious
- It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(abashed) to be embarrassed, unsettled, or ashamed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)