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