It was all owing to--' began Sir Thomas Tode, looking at his wife with a cringing shamefacedness that was most entertaining.
Never had this come home to me so strongly before, for the maid's shamefacedness had died out of Marjorie Kennedy; and now she seemed wholly set with a fierce jealousy of hate to compass the punishment of her father's enemies.
Almsdeeds I can atame; And help for to repress When ye have done offence or sin; If ye will mercy and grace win With Shamefacedness ye must begin: This way must ye take.
Before a storm goeth lightning: and before shamefacedness goeth favour: and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.
That is to say, be ashamed of doing any of these things, which I am now going to mention; for though sometimes shamefacedness is not to be indulged: yet it is often good and necessary: as in the following cases.
Nevertheless in so far as the vices opposed to other virtues are base and disgraceful, shamefacedness may also pertain to other virtues.
Whether Shamefacedness Is About a Disgraceful Action?
Self-love and shamefacednessprevented me from using my common sense.
Her fear was very natural, but out of shamefacedness I did not like to retract.
She had a certain shamefacedness about going through the streets in such a fashion.
Fanny turned and looked at Eva, who cast down her eyes before her in a very shamefacedness of happiness and contrition.
The men started a cheer to cover a certain chivalrous shamefacednesswhich was upon them at the sight of the girl's grief, and another cheer from the factory echoed it.
Blent with it was the tenderness of a lover when he knows he is loved, and just a shade of shamefacedness as well.
Sir Anthony blushed hotly over this avowal, but his unsuspicious host only saw in it the shamefacedness with which a man, and especially a young man, makes a display of his feelings.
The shamefacedness which prevents a modest man from importuning a fellow-creature for a gift, after the first request has been refused, is out of place in the intercourse between an empty but believing suppliant and the God of all grace.
His story was very short, and it was told with more shamefacedness than was at all natural for a triumphant lover.
She came in upon them one morning, as they sat together in the breakfast-room, with more shamefacedness than could be easily accounted for at the first moment.
They gave each other a confidential hug--regret, sympathy, shamefacednessall mingled together.
The mothers kept up as long as possible an appearance of shamefacedness on behalf of their children, who would not be shamefaced themselves.
Shamefacedness is derived from aidos in the Greek, and has “modesty” and “bashfulness” for its primary meaning.
With shamefacedness the Christian is to be adorned with sobriety.
