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单词 shamefacedness
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shamefacednessn.

/ˈʃeɪmfeɪstnɪs/
Etymology: -ness suffix.
The state or quality of being shamefaced.
1. Modesty, bashfulness, shyness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > shyness or bashfulness > [noun]
shamefastnessc1200
shamefulnessa1340
nicetya1387
scurna1400
bashednessc1440
bashfulness1539
nicenessc1550
shamefacedness1555
to lie aback1636
shyness1651
squeamishness1720
shrinkingness1835
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. 181 A couering of honeste shamefacednesse.
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis iv. 99 He blusht for shame; Not knowing loue: whom shamefac'tnesse became.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §135. 167 There is often in People, especially Children, a clownish shamefac'dness before Strangers.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 78 My poor grateful Heart was like a too full River, which overflows its Banks; and it carry'd away my Fear and my Shame-facedness.
1803 W. Wordsworth To Highland Girl 31 The embarrassed look of shy distress, And maidenly shame~facedness.
1888 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. in Voice (N.Y.) 31 May A woman of few words and much shamefacedness.
2. The state of being ashamed, ashamedness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [noun]
shamec725
vergoyne1484
turpitude1570
ashamedness1615
shamefacedness1641
shamefastness1646
1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. x. 365 Shee [sc. the soule] stands off in a sinful shamefac'dnesse.
a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) 20 A certain shamefacedness to be thought curious, or changeable.
1894 S. J. Weyman Man in Black i. 8 The boy..stood looking round him with a dark shamefacedness.
3. Misused for: Shamelessness. Cf. shamefastness n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > shamelessness
unshamefulnessc950
unshamefastness?a1400
shamelessness1540
unshameless1555
shamefastness1589
unshamefacedness1596
flagrancy1599
blatancy1610
flagrance1634
brass1642
frontlessness1698
barefacedness1702
bronze1729
coolness1751
shamefacedness1827
bold-facedness1832
brazenness1861
unblushingness1891
1827 H. W. Longfellow Let. 26 Feb. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. vii. 101 The French ministry is..with the most bold shamefacedness endeavoring to retrench their liberty of thought.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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