Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shamefacedness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shamefaced \Shame"faced`\, a. [For shamefast; AS. scamf[ae]st.
See {Shame}, n., and {Fast} firm.]
Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident;
bashful; modest.
Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise.
--Dryden.
Note: Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was
shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness; but
the ordinary manifestations of shame being by the face,
have brought it to its present orthography. --Trench.
-- {Shame"faced}, adv. -- {Shame"faced`ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shamefacedness
n : feeling embarrassed about yourself [syn: {sheepishness}]
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