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noun

Shame n.

A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal. "HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images, That blush at their degenerate progeny." "Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?"

Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt. "Ye have borne the shame of the heathen." "Honor and shame from no condition rise." "And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame."

The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace. "Guides who are the shame of religion."

The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.

For shame! you should be ashamed; shame on you!

To put to shame, to cause to feel shame; to humiliate; to disgrace. "Let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil."

verb

Shame v. t. (past & past part. shamed; pres. part. shaming)

To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame. "Were there but one righteous in the world, he would... shame the world, and not the world him."

To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace. "And with foul cowardice his carcass shame."

To mock at; to deride. (Obs. or R.) "Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor."

Shame v. i. To be ashamed; to feel shame. (R.) "I do shame To think of what a noble strain you are."

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Etymology of 'Shame'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shame" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bath waters, for instance, change the colour of silver in the pocket of those who use them. Mercury produces the same effect; Tartar emetic, rubbed on the pit of the stomach, produces vomiting. Yawning and laughing are infectious; so are fear and shame. The sight of sour things, or even the idea of them, will set the teeth on edge. Small-pox, itch, and other diseases, are contagious; if so, say they, mercurial amulets bid fair to destroy the germ of some complaints when used only as an external application, ...

— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian

... which persisted and were indignant, by turning on her with, an irascibility she hadn't yet seen in him, and inquiring of her whether then she really wished to put him to public shame? "You wouldn't wish to go against an established custom, ...

— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim

... shame the sweet word. I hate you! To think the face that I have learned to love should mask ...

— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... this sense of isolation and aloofness from the tenderness of the world brought to him. He looked at her fair young face, clouded and troubled now with doubts and annoyance, and with a sinking heart he realized that her personal vexation loomed as large upon the horizon of her mind as the shame and danger that had ...

— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens

... headache! It is t-o-o bad, so it is," she continued in the same soothing, winning way, caressing his bold, white brow with her tiny hands. "It's a horrid shame, so it is! P-o-o-r pa. Where does it ache, papa-sy, dear? In the forehead? Cerebrum or cerebellum, papa-sy? Occiput or ...

— The Ghost • William. D. O'Connor

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