I do shame To think of what a noble strain you are.
--Shak.
HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images,
That blush at their degenerate progeny. --Dryden.
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame? --Shak.
2. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy;
derision; contempt.
Ye have borne the shame of the heathen. --Ezek.
xxxvi. 6.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. --Pope.
And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring
sister's shame. --Byron.
3. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach,
and degrades a person in the estimation of others;
disgrace.
O C?sar, what a wounding shame is this! --Shak.
Guides who are the shame of religion. --Shak.
4. The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the
private parts. --Isa. xlvii. 3.
{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.
Were there but one righteous in the world, he would
. . . shame the world, and not the world him.
--South.
2. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to
disgrace.
And with foul cowardice his carcass shame.
--Spenser.
3. To mock at; to deride. [Obs. or R.]
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor. --Ps. xiv.
6.