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Definition of Shamefast
1. a. Modest; shamefaced.
Definition of Shamefast
1. Adjective. (archaic) Bashful, modest; shy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shamefast
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamefast
Literary usage of Shamefast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Froissart in Britain by Jean Froissart, Henry Newbolt (1902)
"How Wat Tyler was slain, and how the Commons were shamefast before the King, and
brake their array. Now let us return to the king. ..."
2. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright (1884)
"'Tis a blushing shamefast spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. Shakespeare,
Richard III. I. 4. 142. In this passage the quartos read ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"(E.) A corruption of shamefast, by a singular confusion with face, due to the
fact that shame is ... 142, where the quarto ed. has shamefast (Schmidt). ..."
4. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1898)
"... moste be shamefast, nat for to covere ne hyden his synne, ... And ther-of
seith Seint Augustyn that swich shamefast folk been next ..."
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