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Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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BLUSH,
1. To redden in the cheeks or face to be suddenly suffused with a red color in the cheeks or face, from a sense of guilt, shame, confusion, modesty, diffidence or surprise followed by at or for, before the cause of blushing as, blush at your vices blush for your degraded country.
In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush.
2. To bear a blooming red color, or any soft bright color as the blushing rose.
He bears his blushing honors thick upon him.
Shakespeare has used this word in a transitive sense, to make red, and it may be allowable in poetry.
BLUSH, n. A red color suffusing the cheeks only, or the face generally, and excited by confusion, which may spring from shame, guilt, modesty, diffidence or surprise.
The rosy blush of love.
1. A red or reddish color.
2. Sudden appearance a glance a sense taken from the sudden suffusion of the face in blushing as, a proposition appears absurd at first blush.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Blush'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/blush.html.
Entry for 'Blush'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/blush.html.