shamefast

American  

[shaym-fast, -fahst] / ˈʃeɪmˌfæst, -ˌfɑst /

adjective

Archaic.

1. shamefaced.

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Other Word Forms

• shamefastness
  noun
• shamefastly
  adverb

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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shamefast

Then, turning to her, where she stood, all shamefast and confounded, he said to her, 'Griselda, wilt thou have me to thy husband?'

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

‘She is so shamefast that she cannot brook a word;’ and in fact Lilias had pulled her hood over her face, and shrunk behind him, at the first approach of the young gentleman.

From The Caged Lion by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Few are my years, for I am not so old as Kānu,— I am too shamefast and too tender.

From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura

And he fell upon his knees, and buried his face, shamefast, in the hem of her garment, and wept that he had so wounded her whom his soul loved.

From The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers by Edna Kingsley Wallace

The shamefast silence and confusion which ensued was of ill omen for the success of an undertaking so unwelcome to the growing liberalism of the time.

From The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske