abasht

Comes Sam'l later to carry me home, and my Lady speaking with him of my Lady Jem's marriage with young Mr Carteret do say he is so abasht and so little coming forward with his courtship that it do much discomfort poor Lady Jem as not knowing what he would be at.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

Then the Childe, abasht, went to the Ant. He sayd, 'Will you play with me, Ant.'

Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843

"What do you mean?" asked the stranger, somewhat abasht, but whose curiosity was stirred.

The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

Now a sentimental melancholy inhaloes every ordinary object around us; and amid the meek abasht feelings of a pining anguish and remorse, suddenly starts up nauseous arrogance, vaunting the grandeur of a spoilt capricious heart.

The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

Shewe thy selfe Cynthia with thy siuer rayes, and be not abasht:

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

331: They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung

Paradise Lost (1667) 1667