单词 | shamefacedness |
释义 | shamefacednessn. 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). < n.1555 |
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