Crossword-Solution: ABASHING 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions.

The good writer may be one who disclaims all literary pretension, but there he is, at work among words,—binding the vagabond or liberating the prisoner, exalting the humble or abashing the presumptuous, incessantly alert to amend their implications, break their lazy habits, and help them to refinement or scope or decision.

Then soaring where the wild birds fare, My song would sweep the windy lyre Of Heaven’s choir, Pulsing desire For starry fire, Abashing chilling vagues of air With throbbing of warm breasts that dare! CHARLOTTE PORTER BLUEBERRIES Upon the hills of Garlingtown Beneath the summer sky, In many pleasant pastures On sunny slopes and high, Their skins abloom with dusty blue, Asleep, the berries lie.

Maltravers had not yet, then, the keen and sharp yearning for reputation; he had not, as yet, tasted its sweets and bitters--fatal draught, which /once/ tasted, begets too often an insatiable thirst! neither had he enemies and decriers whom he was desirous of abashing by merit.

Maltravers had not yet, then, the keen and sharp yearning for reputation; he had not, as yet, tasted its sweets and bitters--fatal draught, which _once_ tasted, begets too often an insatiable thirst! neither had he enemies and decriers whom he was desirous of abashing by merit.