[f. BLUSH v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. BLUSH.
1581. R. Goade, in Confer., II. (1584), L iij b. Worthy of hissing, and of blusshing too.
1648. Jenkyn, Blind Guide, i. 6. Even the sectaries read it with blushing.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 146. As the blushings of the Evening.
1872. Darwin, Emotions, xiii. 310. Blushing is the most peculiar, and the most human of all expressions.
