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单词 hontous
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hontousadj.

Forms: late Middle English hontous, late Middle English hontouse, late Middle English hounteus, late Middle English hounteuse, late Middle English hountouse; N.E.D. (1899) also records a form late Middle English hounteous.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French hontous.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman hontous, hounteus, hountous, honteus, Anglo-Norman and Middle French honteux (French honteux ) shameful, causing shame, ashamed, full of shame (12th cent. in Old French) < honte shame, disgrace ( < a Germanic cognate of Old English hȳnþ , Middle Dutch hoonde , Old Saxon hōnitha , Old High German hōnida , etc., a derivative formation < the same Germanic base as hean adj.) + -eux , -ous -ous suffix. Compare earlier hountage n., hountee n.
Obsolete.
Worthy of shame, shameful; full of shame, ashamed.
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the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [adjective]
ashamedOE
shamefastc1275
shamefulc1440
hontous?1473
vergoynous1484
shamed1508
shamefaced1873
shame1883
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [adjective] > disgraced or dishonoured
shentc1440
hontous?1473
defamed1474
shamed1508
renownless1552
opprobrious1569
distained1590
ruined1596
dishonorate1601
dishonoured1608
disgraceda1616
scandalleda1616
baffled1671
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 20 They..had grete shame & fureur to beholde so hounteuse and abhomynable werk and oultrageous synne.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 64v Two damoyselles wente doun of the tour in to the chambre of Iupiter, And findyng hym a slepe awoke hym, Wherof he was hounteus and ashamed.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 56 I am ashamed and hontouse to lyue.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxiv. 238 Whan the noble pucelle Eglantyne vnderstode the kyng her vncle, she was shamfull & hontous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.?1473
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