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shamefastness arch.|ˈʃeɪmfɑːstnɪs, -æ-|
[f. shamefast a. + -ness.]
1. Modesty, sobriety of behaviour, decency, propriety; bashfulness, shyness. Also, † a feeling of shame, ashamedness.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 73 Min shamfestnesse is togenes me. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 193 Wymmen..in convenable abite, wiþ schamefastnesse and sobirnesse ournynge hem. c1386Chaucer Prol. 840 And ye, sire clerk, lat be your shamefastnesse, Ne studieth noght. c1460Sir R. Ros La Belle Dame 120 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 84 To syng also, by force he wasse constrayned, ffor no plesaunce, but verrey schamfastnesse. 1513Life Hen. V (1911) 144 The Kinge..kissed..the Ladye Katherine,..wch was not done wthout some shamefastnes of that virgin. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 141 And in stede of the feruente desyre, which prouoketh a chylde to be better than hys felowe, lette a man be as much stirred vp with shamefastnes to be worse than all other. 1642D. Rogers Naaman 324 Others out of bashfulnesse and shamefastnesse, loath to be troublesome. 1646W. Price Mans Delinq. 11 Even Nature (saith Tertullian) hath cast a shamefastnesse on all sinfull evill. 1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. a 6, Out of Niaiserie and Shamefastness says at every turn (I think, or perhaps this is true, or may be true). 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. iii. 360 Blanche..almost cried with indignant ‘shamefastness’. 1882Swinburne Tristram iii. 69 She looked on him and loved him; but being young Made shamefastness a seal upon her tongue.
†b. personified.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxii. (1845) 159 And first she led me to the upper ward, Where Shamefastnes did us well regarde, For he was gayler. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. x. 50 And next to her sate goodly Shamefastnesse, Ne euer durst her eyes from ground vpreare.
†2. Misused for: Shamelessness. Obs.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurditie Wks. (Grosart) I. 26 It seemes that law is turned to libertie, and honest ciuilitie into impudent shamefastnes. |