Bashfully

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  † 1.  Without self-possession; with misgiving or dismay. Obs.

1552.  Huloet, Bashfullye or in amase, attonite.

1675.  Hobbes, Odyssey (1677), 382. He went not to the battle bashfully.

  2.  In a shy or shamefaced manner; cf. BASHFUL 2.

1552.  Huloet, Bashfullye or wyth shamefastnes, pudibunde.

1651.  Davenant, Gondibert, II. vi. (R.). Here the check’d Sun his universal face Stops bashfully, and will no entrance make.

1832.  Ht. Martineau, Ella of Gar., vi. 70. Angus looked down as bashfully as if he had never seen the world.