shamefast

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/ˈʃeɪmfɑːst/ (UK)

Definition of shamefast

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adj

(archaic)Bashful, modest; shy.

“With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid / Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth […]”
“But the women are alwayes covered about their middles with a skin, and very shamefast to be seene bare.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Middle English shamefast, schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English sċamfæst (“modest”), corresponding to shame + fast.

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