SHAME
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Shame (?), n. [OE. shame, schame, AS. scamu, sceamu; akin to OS. & OHG. scama, G. scham, Icel. sk&ö;mm, shkamm, Sw. & Dan. skam, D. & G. schande, Goth. skanda shame, skaman sik to be ashamed; perhaps from a root skam meaning to cover, and akin to the root (kam) of G. hemd shirt, E. chemise. Cf. Sham.] 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.
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HIde, for shame,
Romans, your grandsires' images,
That blush at their degenerate progeny.
Dryden.
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Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
Shak.
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2. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
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Ye have borne the shame of the heathen.
Ezek. xxxvi. 6.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Pope.
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And every woe a tear can claim
Except an erring sister's shame.
Byron.
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3. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
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O C&unr_;sar, what a wounding shame is this!
Shak.
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Guides who are the shame of religion.
Shak.
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4. The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts. Isa. xlvii. 3.
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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.” Ps. xl. 14.
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Shame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
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Were there but one righteous in the world, he would . . . shame the world, and not the world him.
South.
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2. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
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And with foul cowardice his carcass shame.
Spenser.
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3. To mock at; to deride. [Obs. or R.]
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Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor.
Ps. xiv. 6.
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Shame, v. i. [AS. scamian, sceamian. See Shame, n.] To be ashamed; to feel shame. [R.]
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I do shame
To think of what a noble strain you are.
Shak.
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