shamefulnessn.
/ˈʃeɪmfʊlnɪs/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
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxxxii. 18 Fulfil þaire faces of shamefulnes.
?a1487 How Good Wife taught Dau. 45 Bot euir with dreid and schamfulnes Scho suld draw to the lawast plass.
1552 D. Lindsay Compl. 59 Allace! my sleuth and schamefulnes Debarrit fra me all gredynes.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 103 It is fit we should endue children with shamfulnesse and desire of glorie.
2. Disgracefulness, scandalousness. Also, disgraceful conduct.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [noun] > quality of being disgraceful
inhonesty1481
opprobriousnessa1540
shamefulness1564
disgracefulnessa1586
dishonourableness1727
opprobrity1751
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [noun] > that which is disgraceful
shamea1300
ignominy1564
shamefulness1564
1564 J. Rastell Confut. Serm. M. Iuell f. 101v No absurditie or shamefulnes shall euer be concluded of them.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ii. v. 59 The whole kinred..would blush, and bee ashamed at her shamefulnesse.
1862 Ld. Tennyson Coming of Arthur 238 While the King debated with himself If Arthur were the child of shamefulness, Or born the son of Gorloïs, after death.
1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 243/1 An enterprise whose shamefulness was obvious now to himself.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]
shapea1000
shameOE
i-cundeOE
memberc1300
privy memberc1325
kindc1330
privitiesc1375
harness1382
shameful parts1382
genitoriesa1387
partc1390
tailc1390
genitalsa1393
thingc1405
genitalc1450
privy parts1533
secret1535
loin?1541
genitures1548
filthy parts1553
shamefulness1561
ware1561
meatc1564
natural places1569
secret members1577
lady ware1592
natural parts1601
lady's ware1608
gear1611
private parts1623
groin1631
pudendums1634
natural1650
privacies1656
sex1664
secrecyc1675
nudities1677
affair1749
sexual parts1753
person1824
sex organ1847
privates1940
naughty bits1972
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) Table Script. Quot. None shall come neere any of the next of his bloude that he should reveale there shamefulnesse [Fr. sa vergongne].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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