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ashame, v.|əˈʃeɪm|
Forms: 1 asc(e)amian, 3 ascam-en, 4–6 aschame, 6 asshame, (Sc. eschame), 4– ashame.
[f. a- prefix 1 + OE. sc(e)amian to shame. Cf. MHG. erschamen, mod.G. erschämen.]
†1. intr. To feel shame, to be ashamed. (In quot. 1305 aschame may be imperative, or perh. n. formed on the verb.) Obs.; but see next word.
c1000Ps. lxviii. 8 (Bosw.) Ná ascamien on me. c1305E.E.P. (1862) 69 Hi suede & cride on hem aschame. 1533Bellendene Livy ii. (1822) 177 Thay eschamit that thair ennemies suld departe..unpunist. 1566Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 397 Sche eschame nott to sett out ane Proclamatioun, in this forme.
2. trans. To put to shame, to make ashamed.
1591P. Adamson in De Foe Hist. Ch. Scot. Add. 51 Neither is there any Thing that more ashameth me. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 814 The Graund master with this answere doth..ashame them. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. viii. 291 He raiseth up..the foolish to ashame the wise. |