单词 | shamefaced |
释义 | shamefacedadj. 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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