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Shame   /ʃeɪm/   Listen
noun
Shame  n.  
1.
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?"
2.
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."
3.
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."
4.
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)  
1.
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."
2.
To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace. "And with foul cowardice his carcass shame."
3.
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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"Shame" Quotes from Famous Books



... such circumstances. Others make one more and a still greater departure from the path of honesty, and victimizing all whom they can influence by the holiest of pleas and the most sacred claims of friendship, flee away to bury their shame among strangers. A few find such positions the turning-points in their lives, and thenceforward develope some startling virtues which almost redeem the ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

... far and wide, but hindered is its course. What time were no more thrummed the frozen cords, the songs waxed sad. The policy of the Han dynasty was in truth strange! A worthless officer must for a thousand years feel shame. ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... of me as the Heavenly said, 'Thou art The blessedest of women!'—blessedest, Not holiest, not noblest,—no high name, Whose height misplaced may pierce me like a shame, When I sit ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... King is lifted up, and the Rood dare not even stoop: the dark nails pierce the Cross, and it stands, companion of its Maker's agony and shame. ...
— Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days • Emily Hickey

... utterly alone, and that even God seemed to be silent in this hour of tragic failure. Here are your enemies triumphant at the gate, thirsting for your blood. Beyond that gate, betrayal, torture, and public shame are waiting for you. In the background of all stands the cruel gibbet to which your own countrymen, the people you have loved with an all-absorbing love, shall presently commit you. Tell me what you would pray in like circumstances. Your ...
— The New Theology • R. J. Campbell


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