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- noun Obsolete form of
shame .
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Examples
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And thei seyn, that God made Adam and Eve alle naked; and that no man scholde schame, that is of kyndely nature.
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And thei seyn, that God made Adam and Eve alle naked; and that no man scholde schame, that is of kyndely nature.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And thei seyn, that God made Adam and Eve alle naked; and that no man scholde schame, that is of kyndely nature.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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‘And isn’t it a hundred pities that I must come and upset such a pretty schame as that?
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‘And, if you were in the chair now, before a jury, wouldn’t you swear that there was a schame among them to get
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I gave in to the ould man; that is, I made no objection to his schame.
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And the wommen haven no schame of the men; but lyen alle to gidre, syde to syde, tille the hete be past.
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And the wommen haven no schame of the men; but lyen alle to gidre, syde to syde, tille the hete be past.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And so hie remaned upoun his foote, and was tackin, whill the multitud fledd, and took the greattar schame.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Many had befoir promissed, but at the poynt it was left so bayre, that with schame it was schut up in the pock againe, and thei after a schaw returned with more schame to the realme, then skaith to thare ennemyes.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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