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shame
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English schame, from Old English s?amu, from Proto-Germanic *skam?.
Noun
shame (usually uncountable, plural shames)
- Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
- Something to regret.
- 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame
- And what you do to me is a shame.
- 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame
- Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
- […] because ye haue borne the shame of the heathen,
- 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour
- And every woe a tear can claim / Except an erring sister's shame.
- The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
- guides who are the shame of religion
- That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
- 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:
- And he took fig leaves and sewed them together and made an apron for himself. And he covered his shame.
- 1991, Martha Graham, Blood Memory, Washington Square Press
- She turns to lift her robe, and lays it across her as though she were revealing her shame, as though she were naked.
- 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:
Synonyms
- (uncomfortable or painful feeling): dishonor
- (something regrettable): dishonor, humiliation, mortification, pity
- See also: Thesaurus:shame
Antonyms
- (uncomfortable or painful feeling): honor
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
shame
- A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
- 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- Mr John Golding: One would not realise that it came from the same Government, because in that letter the Under-Secretary states: "The future of BT's pension scheme is a commercial matter between BT, its workforce, and the trustees of the pensions scheme, and the Government cannot give any guarantees about future pension arrangements."
- Mr. Charles R. Morris: Shame.
- 1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend
- [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever — (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")
- 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- (South Africa) Expressing sympathy.
- Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English schamen, from Old English s?amian, from Proto-West Germanic *skam?n, from Proto-Germanic *skam?n?.
Verb
shame (third-person singular simple present shames, present participle shaming, simple past and past participle shamed)
- (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
- Were there but one righteous in the world, he would […] shame the world, and not the world him.
- To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
- (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
- (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.
- Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
Synonyms
- (to cause to feel shame): demean, humiliate, insult, mortify
Antonyms
- (to cause to feel shame): honor, dignify
Derived terms
- ashamed
- beshame
- (sense: to cause to feel shame) creep-shame
- name and shame
Translations
References
- shame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Hames, Shema, ahems, haems, hames, heams
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blemish
English
Etymology
From Middle English blemisshen, blemissen, from Old French blemiss-, stem of Old French blemir, blesmir (“make pale, injure, wound, bruise”) (French blêmir), from Old Frankish *blesmjan, *blasmijan (“to make pale”), from Old Frankish *blasmi (“pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“white, pale”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bles (“white spot”), German blass (“pale”), Old English ?blered (“bare, uncovered, bald, shaven”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl?m??/
- Hyphenation: blem?ish
Noun
blemish (plural blemishes)
- A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, Leviticus, 22, xix,
- Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
- 1997, Jean Soler, 5: The Semiotics of Food in the Bible, Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik (editors), Food and Culture: A Reader, page 61,
- Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish, and the animal is unclean.
- 2003, A. K. Forrest, Chapter 6: Surface Defect Detection on Ceramics, Mark Graves, Bruce Batchelor (editors), Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products, page 193,
- There are a very large number of types of blemish and the smallest blemish visible to a human can be surprisingly small, for example less than 10?m deep, which may be on the surface of a heavily embossed tile.
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, Leviticus, 22, xix,
- A moral defect; a character flaw.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:defect
Related terms
- blemished (adjective)
- blemishless
- blemishment
Translations
Verb
blemish (third-person singular simple present blemishes, present participle blemishing, simple past and past participle blemished)
- To spoil the appearance of.
- 2009, Michael A. Kirkman, Chapter 2: Global Markets fo Processed Potato Products, Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur (editors), Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology, page 40,
- Generally, varieties in current use for processing are resilient, if not wholly resistant to blemishing diseases and disorders.
- 2011, Rob Imrie, Emma Street, Architectural Design and Regulation, unnumbered page,
- I mean it reaches a point of ridiculousness in some regards, and one?s seen actually many good schemes here in San Francisco, for example, that have been blemished by an overly strict adherence to codes.
- 2009, Michael A. Kirkman, Chapter 2: Global Markets fo Processed Potato Products, Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur (editors), Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology, page 40,
- To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.
- 1600, Francis Vere, Commentaries of the Divers Pieces of Service
- There had nothing passed betwixt us that might blemish reputation.
- 1600, Francis Vere, Commentaries of the Divers Pieces of Service
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