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Shame   /ʃeɪm/   Listen
Shame

noun
1.
A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
2.
A state of dishonor.  Synonyms: disgrace, ignominy.  "Suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"
3.
An unfortunate development.  Synonym: pity.
verb
(past & past part. shamed; pres. part. shaming)
1.
Bring shame or dishonor upon.  Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour.  Antonym: honor.
2.
Compel through a sense of shame.
3.
Cause to be ashamed.
4.
Surpass or beat by a wide margin.



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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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