Definition of Ashames

1. Verb. (third-person singular of ashame) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ashames

1. ashame [v] - See also: ashame

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashames

ash blondes
ash cake
ash cash
ash gourd
ash gray
ash grey
ash tree
ash wednesday
ashake
asham'd
ashame
ashamed
ashamed(p)
ashamedly
ashamedness
ashames (current term)
ashaming
ashbin
ashburtonite
ashcake
ashcakes
ashcan
ashcans
ashdump door
ashed
ashen
ashen-faced
ashen tuber
ashen tubercle
ashen wing

Literary usage of Ashames

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

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... I sported at his side— That was before a kinsman's gore these felon hands had dyed— Before the stain was on my brow that sickens and ashames ! ..."

2. Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gapby Alfred W. Tatum by Alfred W. Tatum (2005)
"... I am the black man who ashames his race. I am the darker brother whom they laugh in my face. I have many disadvantages that bring me down. ..."

3. A Royal Rhetorician: A Treatise on Scottis Poesie, a Counterblaste to by James, Robert Sangster Rait (1900)
"... and fugitive Subject; I will neither defile my pen, nor your sacred eyes or eares with the describing of him, who ashames, nay, ..."

4. The Political Works of James I by James (1918)
"... I will neither defile my pen, nor your sacred eyes or eares with the describing of him, who ashames, nay, ..."

5. The Political Works of James I by James (1918)
"... I will neither defile my pen, nor your sacred eyes or eares with the describing of him, who ashames, nay, ..."

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