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Bible Dictionaries
Shame
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
(2):
(n.) A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
(3):
(n.) Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
(4):
(n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
(5):
(n.) The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.
(6):
(n.) To be ashamed; to feel shame.
(7):
(v. t.) To mock at; to deride.
(8):
(v. t.) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shame'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/shame.html. 1828.
