ppl. a. Forms: 4 abayst, abaist; 4–5 abaissht, -aisscht, -assht; 5–6 abasshed; 6 abaszshed; 6– abasht, abashed; also aphetic BASHED. [ABASH v. + -ED.] Put out of self-possession, stricken with surprise; confounded, discomfited, disconcerted; checked with a sense of shame, presumption, or error.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1431. Swa þat man suld mare drede and be abayste, Over mykel in þe world here to trayste.
1534. Ld. Berners, Golden Bk. of Marc. Aurel. (1546), O iiii b. We holdyng downe our heddes abashed.
1718. Pope, Iliad, VIII. 540. The pensive goddesses, abash’d, controll’d.
1859. Tennyson, Enid, 765. Enid, all abash’d she knew not why, Dared not to glance at her good mother’s face.
