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单词 shamefastness
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shamefastnessn.

/ˈʃeɪmfɑːstnɪs//ˈʃeɪmfastnɪs/
Etymology: < shamefast adj. + -ness suffix.
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.
b. personified.
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
2. Misused for: Shamelessness. Obsolete.
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.
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