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shamefaced, a.|ˈʃeɪmfeɪst|
[f. shame n. + face n. + -ed2; originally an etymological misinterpretation of shamefast a.]
1. Modest; bashful, shy.
1555[implied in shamefacedness]. 1593R. Harvey Philad. 19 Cordeil being euer modestly and maydenly shamefaced. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. xi, A Globe of circular light, That with long beams the shame-fac't night array'd. 1634W. Cartwright Ordinary iv. v. Song, Her blush doth shed All o'r the bed Clean shamefac'd beames. 1712Addison Spect. No. 458 ⁋5 Our Excess of Modesty makes us shamefaced in all the Exercises of Piety and Devotion. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xxiv, The flush of shame-faced joy to hide The hounds, the hawk, her cares divide. 1873Morley Rousseau I. 218 He felt shamefaced as a schoolboy before the great world.
b. absol. (See quot.)
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 625 There quakes the plant, which in Pudefetan Is call'd The shame-fac'd [orig. L'arbre en Pudefetan Vergongneux appellé], for asham'd of man, If toward it one doe approch too much It shrinkes his boughes to shunne our hatefull tuch.
2. Ashamed, abashed.
1873Morley Rousseau I. 70 That unwritten chapter of their lives which even the most candid persons keep privately locked up in shamefaced recollection. 1896‘Ian Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 237 The minister..hears the shamefaced confession of some lassie whom love has led astray. |