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Definition of Shamed
1. Adjective. Showing a sense of guilt. "The hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"
Similar to: Ashamed
Derivative terms: Guilt, Guiltiness, Shamefacedness
2. Adjective. Suffering shame.
Definition of Shamed
1. Verb. (past of shame) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shamed
1. shame [v] - See also: shame
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamed
Literary usage of Shamed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Of me and all the deep dishonour shamed !" She spake, unknowing ; Earth,
life-gendering Earth, Held them long-since in Lacedaemon laid, Ev'n in their own ..."
2. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"... 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. ..."
3. Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu by Robert Louis Stevenson (1890)
"... when I suppose you would regret the circumstance ? that you would feel the
tale of frailty the more keenly since it shamed the author of your days ? and ..."
4. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"The like was done in several other places, till the officers had shamed and tired
themselves, and then were glad to give over. ..."
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