Word Meanings - BLUSHINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.

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• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• BLUSH
  1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless
• BLUSHLESS
  Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• CONFESSIONIST
  One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• BLUSHINGLY
  In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
• CONFESSIONALIST
  A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. Boucher
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• ANSWERABLE
  1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
• CONFESSIONARY
  A confessional. Johnson.
• CONFESSORSHIP
  The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.
• CONFESSARY
  One who makes a confession. Bp. Hall.
• BLUSHET
  A modest girl. B. Jonson.
• BLUSHER
  One that blushes.
• ANSWERABLY
  In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UNANSWERABLE
  Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.