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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
shame
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Examples
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You know what? the picture of Clinton wearing a very red face in Ohio recently, lambasting "Shame on you barack Obama" constitutes shamest political postures on earth, and that can lead to a lot of questions in the fall!
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Heaven, thou shamest us all by thy readiness of thought and eye. —
The Talisman 2008
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Fie for shame, said Beaumains, that ever thou shouldest say or do so evil, for in that thou shamest thyself and knighthood, and thou mayst be sure there will no lady love thee that knoweth thy wicked customs.
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Fie on thee, coward, said Dinadan, thou shamest all knights.
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Fie for shame, said Beaumains, that ever thou shouldest say or do so evil, for in that thou shamest thyself and knighthood, and thou mayst be sure there will no lady love thee that knoweth thy wicked customs.
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"O conspiracy, shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night," quoted Shep in the interim.
A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Hamlin Garland 1900
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` ` Noble, sensible wench! '' exclaimed Richard; ` ` by Heaven, thou shamest us all by thy readiness of thought and eye.
The Talisman 1894
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What sort of almsgiving then is this when thou both shamest thyself and him that receiveth; and also in two ways Him that enjoined it: both because while having Him for a spectator of thine alms, thou seekest the eyes of thy fellow-servants besides Him, and because thou transgressest the law laid down by Him forbidding these things.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Thou shamest my good living, and thy belly is a rascally minister to thee, devouring all things for itself, without fattening a single member of the body corporate.
Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Thou shamest my good living, and thy belly is a rascally minister to thee, devouring all things for itself, without fattening a single member of the body corporate.
Devereux — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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