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shamefacedness|ˈʃeɪmfeɪstnɪs|
[-ness.]
The state or quality of being shamefaced.
1. Modesty, bashfulness, shyness.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. viii. 181 A couering of honeste shamefacednesse. 1608Pennyless Parl. §3 in Harl. Misc. (1744) I. 176 Some Maidens shall blush more for Shame, than for Shame-facedness. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. iv. (1626) 74 He blusht for shame; Not knowing loue: whom shamefac'tnesse became. 1693Locke Educ. §135. 167 There is often in People, especially Children, a clownish shamefac'dness before Strangers. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 131 My poor grateful heart was like a too full river, which overflows its banks; and it carried away my fear and my shamefacedness. 1803Wordsw. To Highland Girl 31 The embarrassed look of shy distress, And maidenly shame⁓facedness. 1888Spurgeon Serm. in Voice (N.Y.) 31 May, A woman of few words and much shamefacedness.
2. The state of being ashamed, ashamedness.
1641J. Trappe Theol. Theol. x. 365 Shee [sc. the soule] stands off in a sinful shamefac'dnesse. 1653A. Wilson Jas. I, 20 A certain Shamefacedness to be thought curious or changeable. 1894S. Weyman Man in Black i. 8 The boy..stood looking round him with a dark shamefacedness.
¶3. Misused for: Shamelessness. Cf. shamefastness 3.
1827Longf. Life (1891) I. vii. 101 The French ministry is..with the most bold shamefacedness endeavoring to retrench their liberty of thought. |