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7341 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (v.).3
The meaning "make ashamed, cover with reproach or indignity" is by 1520s. Related: Shamed; shaming .
7342 Etymology dictionary, p. shaming (n.).1
shaming (n.)
7343 Etymology dictionary, p. shaming (n.).2
"act of putting (someone) to shame or reproach; state of disgrace," late 14c., verbal noun from shame (v.).
7344 Etymology dictionary, p. shameful (adj.).1
shameful (adj.)
7345 Etymology dictionary, p. shameful (adj.).2
Old English scamful "modest, humble, respectful of propriety;" see shame (n.) + -ful. Original senses are long obsolete. The meanings "disgraceful, full of shame; causing shame" are by mid-13c. Related: Shamefully; shamefulness .
7346 Etymology dictionary, p. shameful (adj.).3
… scamlic "shameful, disgraceful" also could mean "modest," but Middle English shamely survived until 16c. Middle English had shamely (adv.) "shamefully" (Old English …
7347 Etymology dictionary, p. shamefaced (adj.).2
… by shame," or else "firm in modesty," from shame (n.) + -fæst, adjectival suffix (see fast (adj.)). Related: Shamefacedly; shamefacedness .
7348 Etymology dictionary, p. shameless (adj.).2
… ;" see shame (n.) + -less. Also in Middle English "free from disgrace, blameless; excusable" (c. 1200). Similar formation in Old Norse skammlauss, Dutch schaamteloos, Old …
7349 Etymology dictionary, p. shamus (n.).2
… Yiddish shames, literally "sexton of a synagogue" (according to Israel Zangwill "a potent personage only next in influence to the President"), from Hebrew shamash …
7350 Etymology dictionary, p. shend (n.).2
… , shame, confusion, disgrace; scandal, disgraceful thing; wretch, impostor, infamous man; bad woman," from the source of Old English scamu "shame" (see shame (n.)) + -þa, with …
7351 Etymology dictionary, p. shend (n.).3
… scandful ) "shameful," shendship "disgrace; destruction, ruin, torments of Hell;" shendness "destruction, harm ruin;" Old English scandhus "house of ill-fame," scandlic …
7352 Etymology dictionary, p. shrink (v.).3
… or shame" is by mid-14c. The transitive sense of "cause to shrink, make to appear smaller" is from late 14c.
7353 Etymology dictionary, p. skeleton (n.).4
… secret shame to a person or family" is from 1812 (the image is perhaps from the Bluebeard fable).
7354 Etymology dictionary, p. slander (n.).3
It is attested from mid-14c. as "action or situation that brings shame or disgrace;" late 14c. as "a bad situation, evil action" and in reference to a person causing such a state of affairs.
7355 Etymology dictionary, p. spiteful (adj.).2
… ., "impious; shameful, contemptible," mid-15c., "expressive of disdain," from spite (n.) in its various senses + -ful. The main modern sense of "having a malevolent and grudging …
7356 Etymology dictionary, p. taint (n.).3
… teint "shame, disgrace" (c. 1400) is an aphetic form of atteinte "a charge or conviction of felony," from Old French ataindre (see attain ).
7357 Etymology dictionary, p. *trep-.4
… in shame;" Greek trepein "to turn," tropos "a turn, direction, course," trope "a turning;" Latin trepit "he turns."
7358 Etymology dictionary, p. turpitude (n.).2
… , scandalous, shameful," a word of uncertain origin. De Vaan finds proposed connections to IE words meaning "to turn" (via the notion of "to turn away") as "too constructed …
7359 Etymology dictionary, p. twinge (n.).2
… to shame, remorse, etc.) is recorded from 1620s.
7360 Etymology dictionary, p. vile (adj.).2
… vil "shameful, dishonorable; low-born; cheap; ugly, hideous," from Latin vilis "cheap, worthless, base, common," of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *wes- (1) "to buy …