Definition of Shame

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Definition of Shame

Shame

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.

Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.

The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.

The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.

To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.

To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.

To mock at; to deride.

To be ashamed; to feel shame.

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Shame Quotations

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey

The only shame is to have none.
Blaise Pascal

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shame Translations

shame in Afrikaans is skaamte
shame in Dutch is foei
shame in French is honte, vergogne
shame in German is Scham, Schande
shame in Italian is pudore, disonore
shame in Latin is rubor, verecundia, dedecus
shame in Swedish is skam, blygsel

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