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单词 shamefaced
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shamefacedadj.

/ˈʃeɪmfeɪst/
Etymology: < shame n. + face n. + -ed suffix2; originally an etymological misinterpretation of shamefast adj.
1.
a. Modest; bashful, shy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > shyness or bashfulness > [adjective]
shamefastc897
unboldc897
shamelya1100
squeamous1483
bashful1548
shamefaced1555
squeamish1561
retiring1566
chary1567
verecund1575
blatec1600
helo1611
shy1672
shuff1688
shyish1754
shanny1821
fawn-like1838
1555 [implied in: W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. 181 A couering of honeste shamefacednesse. (at shamefacedness n. 1)].
1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 19 Cordeil being euer modestly and maydenly shamefaced.
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iv. v. 72 Song Her blush doth shed All o'r the bed, Clean shamefac'd beames.
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xi, in Poems 6 A Globe of circular light, That with long beams the shame-fac't night array'd.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 458. ¶5 Our Excess of Modesty makes us shame-faced in all the Exercises of Piety and Devotion.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 76 The flush of shame-faced joy to hide, The hounds, the hawk, her cares divide.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 218 He felt shamefaced as a schoolboy before the great world.
b. absol. (See quot. 1605.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > unidentified or variously identified plants > [noun]
smearwortc725
evenlesteneOE
hovec1000
hindheala1300
vareworta1300
falcc1310
holwort1350
spigurnela1400
rush?a1425
buck's tonguec1450
lich-walec1450
lich-wortc1450
vine-bind1483
finter-fanter?a1500
heartwood1525
wake-wort1530
Our Lady's gloves1538
bacchar1551
hog's snout1559
centron1570
lady's glove1575
sharewort1578
kite's-foot1580
Magdalene1589
astrophel1591
eileber1597
exan1597
blue butterflower1599
bybbey1600
oenothera1601
rhodora1601
shamefaced1605
mouse-foot1607
Byzantine1621
popinjay1629
priest's bonnet1685
Indian weed1687
foal-bit1706
shepherd's bodkin1706
bottle-head1714
walking leaf1718
French apple1736
bugleweed1771
night-weed1810
beggar-weed1878
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 292 There quakes the plant, which in Pudefetan Is call'd The shame-fac'd [Fr. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [adjective]
ashamedOE
shamefastc1275
shamefulc1440
hontous?1473
vergoynous1484
shamed1508
shamefaced1873
shame1883
1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 70 That unwritten chapter of their lives which even the most candid persons keep privately locked up in shamefaced recollection.
1896 ‘I. Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 237 The minister..hears the shamefaced confession of some lassie whom love has led astray.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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