shamefastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈʃeɪmfɑːst/

形容詞

shamefast (comparative more shamefast, superlative most shamefast)

1. (archaic) Bashful, modest; shy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid / Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth […]

   • 1600, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XXXIX]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 1027–1028:

     Novv vvhen as vvine had drovvned and drouſed the underſtanding: vvhen the night ſeaſon, vvhen the entermingling of men and vvomen together one vvith another (and namely, they of young and tender yeeres, vvith thoſe of elder age) had cleane put out & extinguiſhed all reſpect and regard of ſhamefaſt honeſtie: there began firſt to be practiſed all ſorts of corruption, for every one had all pleaſures readie at commaundement, and his choiſe of thoſe vvhereto by nature he vvas more prone and given to luſt after.

   • 1624, Iohn [i.e., John] Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC:

     But the women are alwayes covered about their middles with a skin, and very shamefast to be seene bare.

派生語

• shamefaced
• shamefastly
• shamefastness
• unshamefast

アナグラム

• fat-shames

語源

From 古期英語 sċamfæst, equivalent to shame +‎ fast.

発音

• IPA: /ˈʃaːmfast/

形容詞

shamefast

1. modest, humble, virtuous, bashful, shy, timid

派生した語

• English: shamefast
  • ⇒ English: shamefaced
• Scots: schamefast, schamfast
• Yola: shaamfast, shaamfasth, shameface

参照

• “shāmefast(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.