shamefast
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of shamefast
before 900; Middle English schamfast shamefaced, originally, modest, bashful, Old English sc ( e ) amfæst; see shame, fast 1
Example Sentences
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So he entered into the cavern, all shamefast, and the brachet followeth after, that he deigned not to carry, and so cometh he to the place where the griffons were.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
Sakhī: Her gentle words she can but stammer, Her shamefast speech will not well out: To-day I found her most contrary, Sometimes consenting, sometimes fearful.
From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura
She too was rosy-red: being ever a shamefast woman.
From The Ship of Stars by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
A goodly lady, meke, trymmed, currteyse: damosell stedfast, symple, Dame gaillarde, benigne, cointe, courtoise: damoiselle constant, symple, chaste, shamefast and honest. chaste, pudique et honeste.
From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Du Wés, Giles
She was shamefast at the question, as many a maid hath been.
From The Fall of the Niebelungs by Armour, Margaret
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