Search for: shame
7321 Etymology dictionary, p. reproachful (adj.).2
1540s, "expressing reproach," also "worthy of reproach, shameful," from reproach (n.) + -ful. Related: Reproachfully; reproachfulness .
7322 Etymology dictionary, p. reproach (n.).2
… "blame, shame, disgrace" (12c.), from reprochier "to blame, bring up against."
7323 Etymology dictionary, p. reproach (v.).2
… "blame, shame, disgrace" (see reproach (n.)). The sense of "rebuke, revile, abuse" is from 1510s. Related: Reproached; reproaching; reproachable .
7324 Etymology dictionary, p. reproof (n.).2
mid-14c., "a shame, a disgrace" (a sense now obsolete), also "a censure to one's face, a rebuke addressed to a person," from Old French reprove "reproach, rejection," verbal noun from reprover "to blame, accuse" (see reprove ).
7325 Etymology dictionary, p. repudiate (v.).3
This is probably is related to pudere "cause shame to," a verb of unknown etymology. Barnhart, however, suggests it is related to pes/ped- "foot," in which case the original notion may be of kicking something away.
7326 Etymology dictionary, p. revile (v.).2
… vil "shameful, dishonorable; low-born; cheap; ugly, hideous" (see vile (adj.)). Related: Reviled; reviler; reviling .
7327 Etymology dictionary, p. scandalous (adj.).2
… , "disgraceful, shameful, causing scandal or offense," from Old French (Modern French scandaleux ), from Medieval Latin scandalosus "scandalous," from Church Latin …
7328 Etymology dictionary, p. scandal (n.).6
… " and "shameful condition, action, or event; that which causes scandal" are from 1590s; the sense of "person whose conduct is a disgrace" is by 1630s. Scandal sheet …
7329 Etymology dictionary, p. scarlet (n.).4
… with shame or indignation." Earlier it was used in the same sense as Scarlet Lady .
7330 Etymology dictionary, p. self-abasement (n.).2
"humiliation proceeding from guilt, shame, or consciousness of unworthiness; degradation of oneself by one's own act," 1650s; see self- + abasement .
7331 Etymology dictionary, p. sense (n.).5
… of shame, 1640s). The meaning "a vague consciousness or feeling" is from 1590s.
7332 Etymology dictionary, p. sh-.3
… shape, shameful, shaft ). But the spelling -sh- has been standard since Caxton, probably as a worn-down form of Middle English -sch- .
7333 Etymology dictionary, p. sham (n.).2
… of shame (n.); a derivation suggested by 1734 and which OED finds "not impossible."
7334 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (n.).1
shame (n.)
7335 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (n.).2
… by shame; state of being in disgrace; dishonor, insult, loss of esteem or reputation; shameful circumstance, what brings disgrace; modesty," from Proto-Germanic …
7336 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (n.).3
… ) to shame "inflict disgrace or dishonor upon" is mid-13c. Shame culture attested by 1947. The interjection for shame! "you should be ashamed" is by c. 1300.
7337 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (n.).4
Also in Middle English "nakedness, private parts, the genitals," as in the Wycliffite Bible's shameful thingis for Latin verecundiora. and shamfast membris for the male genitalia.
7338 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (n.).5
… of shame." Greek distinguished shame in the bad sense of "disgrace, dishonor" ( aiskhynē ) from shame in the good sense of "modesty, bashfulness" ( aidos ).
7339 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (v.).1
shame (v.)
7340 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (v.).2
… , feel shame;" by late Old English also transitive, "cause shame," from the root of shame (n.). Compare Old Saxon scamian, Dutch schamen, Old High German scamen, Danish …