ashamed

From Middle English ashamed, aschamed, from Old English āsċamod, past participle of Old English āsċamian (“to be ashamed”), equivalent to a- +‎ shame +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /əˈʃeɪmd/ (but ashamedly /əˈʃeɪmədli/).

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ashamed (comparative more ashamed, superlative most ashamed)

1. (chiefly of someone in trouble and undergoing punishment for doing something wrong) Feeling shame or guilt.
   • 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Isaiah XLII:17, folio 298, verso:

     They ſhal be turned backe : they ſhal be greatly aſhamed, that truſt in grauẽ images, and ſay to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

   • 1618, John Fletcher, “The Loyal Subject”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: J. Macock, published 1679, act V, scene vi, page 279:

     Good Sir pardon me, / I feel ſufficiently my follies penance, / And am aſham’d, that ſhame a thouſand ſorrows / Feed on continually, would I had never ſeen her, / Or with a clearer judgement look’d upon her, / She was too good for me, ſo heavenly good Sir, / Nothing but Heaven can love that ſoul ſufficiently, / Where I ſhall ſee her once again.

   • 1859, Horace Mann, Address at Antioch College:

     Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

• abashed

• proud

ashamed

1. simple past and past participle of ashame

• hamades