Definition of Beshame

1. Verb. (obsolete) To shame; to make shameful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beshame

1. to put to shame [v -SHAMED, -SHAMING, -SHAMES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beshame

beses
beset
besetment
besetments
besets
besetten
besetter
besetters
besetting
beshade
beshadow
beshadowed
beshadowing
beshadows
beshake
beshame (current term)
beshamed
beshames
beshaming
beshare
besharp
beshawled
beshield
beshine
beshines
beshining
beshirted
beshiver
beshivered

Literary usage of Beshame

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

1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1836)
"... And Nature's modesty beshame Ï Too many of my predecessors Have proved, alas ! but vain professors ; Perhaps you think the same of me, But, ..."

2. The Philological Museum by Julius Charles Hare (1832)
"Controversy is the element of the learned person who has undertaken to beshame and chastise me: to me it is unpleasant, as interrupting the straight course ..."

3. Fond Adventures: Tales of the Youth of the World by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1905)
"... a shameful old man who thought it not robbery to beshame his silver hair; Sirena of Forli, Violante Senese—to name no more, since their names tell ..."

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