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shamefast

adj
/ˈʃeɪmfɑːst/UK

Etymology

From Middle English shamefast, schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English sċamfæst (“modest”), corresponding to shame + fast.

  1. inherited from sċamfæst
  2. inherited from shamefast

Definitions

  1. Bashful, modest

    Bashful, modest; shy.

    • With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid / Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth […]
    • But the women are alwayes covered about their middles with a skin, and very shamefast to be seene bare.

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