shamefastness
- a word derived from shamefast.
Example Sentences
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“Not so, an please your Grace,” said Dennet, who fortunately was not in the least shy, and was still too young for a maiden’s shamefastness.
From The Armourer's Prentices by Hennessy, W.J.
To his grandfather he owed his own gentle spirit, to his father shamefastness and courage; he learnt of his mother to be religious and bountiful and single-minded.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
Blanche hid her face on Ethel's arm, when they were in the carriage, and almost cried with indignant "shamefastness."
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
The modest mirth that she doth use Is mixed with shamefastness; All vice she doth wholly refuse, And hateth idleness.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
