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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shame .
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Examples
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He rejoined, “O thou whose beauty shameth the moon, how shall a lover look on thee and have patience-boon?”
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When she turneth she shameth the wild cattle322 and the gazelles and when she walketh, she breedeth envy in the willow branch: when she unveileth her face outshineth sun and moon and all who look upon her she enslaveth soon: sweet lipped and soft sided indeed is she.
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Sir Tristram; and wit ye well my name is Sir Tristram de Liones, and well I know ye be Sir Lamorak de Galis, and this that I have done to you was against my will, but I was required thereto; but to say that I will do at your request as at this time, I will have no more ado with you, for me shameth of that I have done.
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And now I take upon me the adventures of holy things, and now I see and understand that mine old sin hindereth me and shameth me, so that I had no power to stir nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me.
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Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Proverbs 28. 1999
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She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will not be inferior to the ungodly: and shall be disgraced by them both.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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And now I take upon me the adventures of holy things, and now I see and understand that mine old sin hindereth me and shameth me, so that I had no power to stir nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.
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That which shameth the good, gratifieth the wicked!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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