Blushingly

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] With blushing; modestly; as if ashamed.

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1598. Florio, Dict., Ep. Ded. 3. Made me blushinglie confesse my ignorance.

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1692. Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.), Chances, Wks. (1714), 171. I must blushingly beg leave to say, [etc.].

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1884. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 914/2. A shy girl of fifteen, blushingly conscious of the admiring eyes that followed her.

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