shamefast

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Etymology

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From Middle English shamefast, schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English sċamfæst (modest), corresponding to shame +‎ fast.

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shamefast (comparative more shamefast, superlative most shamefast)

  1. (archaic) Bashful, modest; shy.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid / Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth [...].
    • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 141:
      But the women are alwayes covered about their middles with a skin, and very shamefast to be seene bare.

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English sċamfæst, equivalent to shame +‎ fast.

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shamefast

  1. modest, humble, virtuous, bashful, shy, timid

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