Shame: Definition and part of speech

Shame

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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