Ashame
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To feel shame; to be ashamed. intransitive, obsolete
"Ashame thou, Sidon, seith the se, the strengthe of the se, seiende, I trauailide not with child, and bar not, and nurshede not out ȝung childer, ne to ful waxing broȝte forth maidenes."
- 2 To make ashamed; to shame. rare, transitive
"I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might raiſe my fortune conſiderably had I not got ſuch a Habit of Sweating, which quite aſhames me, when in Company, to ſee my Face of a dewy Sweat, and the generality complain of Cold."
Example
More examples"Ashame thou, Sidon, seith the se, the strengthe of the se, seiende, I trauailide not with child, and bar not, and nurshede not out ȝung childer, ne to ful waxing broȝte forth maidenes."
Etymology
From Old English āsċamian, from ā- + sċamian (“feel shame”), from Proto-Germanic *skamēnan, from *skamō (“shame, humiliation”).
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