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   Shame (?), n. [OE. shame, schame, AS. scamu, sceamu; akin to OS. & OHG. scama, G. scham, Icel. skömm, shkamm, Sw. & Dan. skam, D. & G. schande, Goth. skanda shame, skaman sik to be ashamed; perhaps from a root skam meaning to cover, and akin to the root (kam) of G. hemd shirt, E. chemise.  Cf. Sham.]
   1. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
   
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   HIde, for shame,
   
   Romans, your grandsires' images,
   
   That blush at their degenerate progeny. Dryden.
   
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   Have you no modesty, no maiden shame? Shak.
   
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   2. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
   
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   Ye have borne the shame of the heathen. Ezek. xxxvi. 6.
   
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   Honor and shame from no condition rise. Pope.
   
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   And every woe a tear can claim
   
   Except an erring sister's shame. Byron.
   
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   3. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
   
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   O Csar, what a wounding shame is this! Shak.
   
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   Guides who are the shame of religion. Shak.
   
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   4. The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.  Isa. xlvii. 3.
   
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   For shame! you should be ashamed; shame on you! -- To put to shame, to cause to feel shame; to humiliate; to disgrace. “Let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.”  Ps. xl. 14.
   
   
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   Shame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Shaming.]
   1. To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
   
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   Were there but one righteous in the world, he would . . . shame the world, and not the world him. South.
   
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   2. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
   
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   And with foul cowardice his carcass shame. Spenser.
   
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   3. To mock at; to deride. [Obs. or R.]
   
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   Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor. Ps. xiv. 6.
   
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   Shame, v. i. [AS. scamian, sceamian. See Shame, n.] To be ashamed; to feel shame. [R.]
   
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   I do shame
   
   To think of what a noble strain you are. Shak.
   
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