Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shamefastness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shamefast \Shame"fast\, a. [AS. scamf[ae]st.]
Modest; shamefaced. -- {Shame"fast*ly}, adv. --
{Shame"fast*ness}, n. [Archaic] See {Shamefaced}.
Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. --Chaucer.
[Conscience] is a blushing shamefast spirit. --Shak.
Modest apparel with shamefastness. --1 Tim. ii. 9
(Rev. Ver.).
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