Beshame

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To shame; put to shame. archaic, transitive

    "Controversy is the element of the learned person who has undertaken to beshame and chastise me: […]"

Example

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"Controversy is the element of the learned person who has undertaken to beshame and chastise me: […]"

Etymology

From be- (“at, on, upon”) + shame.

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