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shamefulness|ˈʃeɪmfʊlnɪs|
[f. shameful a. + -ness.]
†1. Sense of shame or disgrace. Also, bashfulness, modesty. Obs.
a1340Hampole Ps. lxxxii. 18 Fulfil þaire faces of shamefulnes. a1487How Good Wife taught Dau. 45 Bot euir with dreid and schamfulnes Scho suld draw to the lawast plass. 1552Lyndesay Compl. 59 Allace! my sleuth and schamefulnes Debarrit fra me all gredynes. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 103 It is fit we should endue children with shamfulnesse and desire of glorie.
2. Disgracefulness, scandalousness. Also, disgraceful conduct.
1564Rastell Confut. Jewell's Serm. 101 b, No absurditie or shamefulnes shall euer be concluded of them. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God ii. v. 59 The whole kinred..would blush, and bee ashamed at her shamefulnesse. 1862Tennyson Coming of Arthur 238 While the King debated with himself If Arthur were the child of shamefulness, Or born the son of Gorloïs, after death. 1903Blackw. Mag. Aug. 243/1 An enterprise whose shamefulness was obvious now to himself.
†3. ‘Shame,’ secret parts. Obs.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. (1634) Table Script. Quot., None shall come neere any of the next of his bloude that he should reveale there shamefulnesse [sa vergongne]. |