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▪ I. shaming, vbl. n.|ˈʃeɪmɪŋ|
[f. shame v. + -ing1.]
The action or fact of putting to shame.
13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (1901) 534 Þou miȝtest procure wiþ such prouyng To þi-self newe schamyng. c1440Jacob's Well xliii. 272 Beatryx, wyth-oute schamyng of here susterys, was schreuyn priuely. c1510More Picus Wks. 5/1 Thei serued of nought but to the shaming of such other folke as wer in very science much better lerned, and in those trifles ignorant. 1680C. Nesse Church Hist. 212 Calling it..Nehustan..for the shameing of such as had so doted upon it. 1844Mrs. Browning Lady Geraldine's Courtship lxxii, I..trod them down with words of shaming.
▪ II. ˈshaming, ppl. a.
[f. shame v. + -ing2.]
That shames or puts to shame. Hence ˈshamingly adv.
1741Richardson Pamela III. 407 For convincing me, in so kind, yet so shaming a manner, how wrong I was. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. 111 An added Present, sketching still In hope unchecked by shaming memories. 1970D. Neville-Rolfe Power without Glory ii. 247 Shorthand and typing... I originally took a shamingly long time to learn both. 1979Homes & Gardens June 169/1 Eventually my bus arrived; a collection of shamingly healthy-looking people in breeches and clumpy boots gathered round. |