Definition of Ashame

1. v. t. To shame.

Definition of Ashame

1. Verb. (transitive rare) To make ashamed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ashame

1. to feel shame [v ASHAMED, ASHAMING, ASHAMES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashame

ash-leaf
ash-leaved maple
ash-pan
ash bin
ash blonde
ash blondes
ash cake
ash cash
ash gourd
ash gray
ash grey
ash tree
ash wednesday
ashake
asham'd
ashame (current term)
ashamed
ashamed(p)
ashamedly
ashamedness
ashames
ashaming
ashbin
ashburtonite
ashcake
ashcakes
ashcan
ashcans
ashdump door
ashed

Literary usage of Ashame

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Japanese Interior by Alice Mabel Bacon (1893)
"The crab angry and said I am ashame, not straight hard, not ashame, shape is transverse because my natural constitution is transverse, ..."

2. The Stubbornness of Geraldine: A Play in Four Acts by Clyde Fitch (1906)
"I vas not — I tink ze word — ashame of mine name, it iss more possibility ashame of me! GERALDINE. Why? What have you done? ..."

3. The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland by John Knox, William M'Gavin (1832)
"Whereunto was this answer made, " Let men ashame publicly to offend, and the ministers shall abstain from specialities ; but so long as protestants are not ..."

4. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"... she was soT ' Nay,' say| have mean wonder soi for life, whl placed ; foT give half li| shown to be ashame had the What morí ' What mol in ..."

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