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ashamed, pred. a.|əˈʃeɪmd|
[pa. pple. of prec., in OE. asceamod; probably also combining OE. ᵹesceamod, ME. yschamed. Cf. Ger. erschämt.]
1. Affected with shame; abashed or put to confusion by a consciousness of guilt or error; disconcerted by a recognition that one's actions or circumstances are in any way not to one's credit.
a1000Crist (Grein) 1299 Hí ascamode swíciaþ on swíman. a1300Cursor M. 636 Naked were þei boþe tweyn, Ashamed were þei not certeyn. c1400Rowland & Ot. 289 Þe Duke Naymes asschamede was, Þe blode stert up in his face. c1500Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 31 Loue that servaunte as thy childe that sone is ashamyde. 1611Bible Jer. xvii. 13 All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. 1711Addison Spect. No. 292 ⁋9 In Milton, the Devil is never described ashamed but once.
2. Const.
a. of (on, for, obs.) the cause of shame. For a person: vicariously on his account.
1250Lay. 29608 And weren ascam[ed] sore for þan owreaste deade. 1388Wyclif Ezek. xxxvi. 32 Be ȝe aschamed on ȝoure weies. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 285 Eschamyt of hyr chance. 1673Cave Prim. Chr. i. i. 10 The honester and severer Romans were ashamed on't. 1752Johnson Rambl. No. 192 ⁋11, I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. a1762Lady Montague Lett. xlv. 157, I am ashamed for her who wrote them. 1825Bro. Jonathan I. 378 Are you ashamed already of..sorrow and contrition?
b. with subord. clause.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 6570 To make hym be ashamede Þat he shulde be so defamede. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. ii. 106, I am ashamed I did yeeld to them. 1859Tennyson Enid 577 Ashamed am I that I should tell it thee.
c. with inf. phr.
1647Cowley Mistr., Discovery i, Why should she asham'd or angry be, To be belov'd by Me? 1711Steele Spect. No. 302 ⁋11, I am ashamed to be caught in this Pickle. 1855Tennyson Maud i. xiii. 25 Ashamed to be seen. Mod. I was ashamed to see it.
3. With inf. phr.:
a. Reluctant through fear of shame to.
b. With a negative: Prevented or deterred by fear of shame from.
1382Wyclif Luke xvi. 3, I am aschamyd to begge. 1414Brampton Penit. Ps. xli. 16 He, that was sumtyme my frende, Is noȝt aschamyd me to assayle. a1593H. Smith Serm. (1637) 396 We are ashamed of sinne and yet not ashamed to sinne. 1711Addison Spect. No. 271 ⁋4 He would have made us ashamed to show our Heads. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 96 He was not ashamed to answer that he could not live out of the royal smile.
4. rarely attrib. arch.
c1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 77 To hide their ashamed heads in the bottom of the ocean. 1872Darwin Emotions xiii. 322 An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present. |