单词 | shamefastness |
释义 | shamefastnessn. archaic. 1. a. Modesty, sobriety of behaviour, decency, propriety; bashfulness, shyness. Also, †a feeling of shame, ashamedness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [noun] > sense of shame or decency shamec725 shamefastnessc1200 shamefulnessa1340 shameness1340 pudicity1567 pudencya1616 pudor1623 forehead1631 sense of shame1647 pudeur1876 the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > shyness or bashfulness > [noun] shamefastnessc1200 shamefulnessa1340 nicetya1387 scurna1400 bashednessc1440 bashfulness1539 nicenessc1550 shamefacedness1555 to lie aback1636 shyness1651 squeamishness1720 shrinkingness1835 the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [noun] shamec725 vergoyne1484 turpitude1570 ashamedness1615 shamefacedness1641 shamefastness1646 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 73 Min shamfestnesse is togenes me. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 193 Wymmen..in convenable abite, wiþ schamefastnesse and sobirnesse ournynge hem. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 840 And ye sire Clerc. lat be youre shamefastnesse Ne studieth noght. c1460 R. Roos tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy 120 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems (1903) 84 To syng also, by force he wasse constrayned, ffor no plesaunce, but verrey schamfastnesse. 1513 Life Henry V (1911) 144 The Kinge..kissed..the Ladye Katherine,..wch was not done wthout some shamefastnes of that virgin. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 27 And in stede of the feruente desyre, which prouoketh a chylde to be better than hys felowe, lette a man be as muche stirred vp with shamefastnes to be worse than all other. 1604 Penniles Parl. Threed-bare Poets in Iacke of Dover Quest of Inquirie sig. E3v Some Maydens shal blush more for shame then for shamefastnes. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 324 Others out of bashfulnesse and shamefastnesse, loath to be troublesome. 1646 W. Price Mans Delinquencie 11 Even Nature (saith Tertullian) hath cast a shamefastnesse on all sinfull evill. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. Pref. sig. A6v Out of Niaiserie and Shamefastness says at every turn, (I think, or, perhaps this is true, or may be True). 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. iii. 360 Blanche..almost cried with indignant ‘shamefastness’. 1882 A. C. Swinburne Tristram of Lyonesse iii. 69 She looked on him and loved him; but being young Made shamefastness a seal upon her tongue. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [noun] > sense of shame or decency > personified shamec1386 shamefastness1509 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxii. 159 And first she led me to the upper ward, Where Shamefastnes did us well regarde, For he was gayler. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. x. sig. K5 And next to her sate goodly Shamefastnesse, Ne euer durst her eyes from ground vpreare. View more context for this quotation 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 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Bv It seemes that law is turned to libertie, and honest ciuilitie into impudent shamefastnes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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