abawed
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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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)