a. [f. BLUSH sb. + -FUL.]

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  1.  Full of blushes, apt to blush, modest, bashful.

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1611.  Cotgr., Vergongneux … shamefull, shame-fac’d, bashfull, blushfull.

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1794.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), Rowl. for Oliver, Wks. II. 154. Thou sly and blushful maid.

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1871.  M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., II. 130. Amy’s shy, quiet, blushful face.

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  † 2.  Calling for a blush, shameful. Obs.

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1656.  Trapp, Comm. Matt. xvi. 11. Ignorance under means is a blushful sin.

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  3.  transf. Blush-colored, rosy, ruddy.

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1804.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), in Beauties Eng. Poetry, I. 135. The berry … hides beneath a leaf its blushful hue.

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1872.  Blackie, Wise Men, 66. The blushful peach.

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  Hence Blushfully adv., Blushfulness.

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1873.  M. Collins, Sqr. Silchester’s, I. xii. 167. Silvia’s bosom was blushfully buttoned.

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1613.  Heywood, Braz. Age, II. ii. Wks. 1874, III. 185. Let me in your face Reade blushfullnesse and feare.

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