abawed

Middle English

Etymology

Perhaps past participle of a verb from Old French abaubir (“to frighten, disconcert”), from Latin ad- + balbus (“stammering”).

Adjective

abawed

1. astonished, abashed
   • c. 1440, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:

     I was abawed for marveyle, / For ever the fayrer that it was, / The more I am bounded in Loves laas.

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