Sceam-fæst

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

sceam-fæst

adj. Shamefast (corrupted later into shamefaced. schamefastnesse, the modern copies of the A. V. shamefacedness; the Revised Version has restored shame-fastness), modest, bashful:--Scamfæst verecundus vel pudens, Wrt. Voc.i. 51, 31. Sceamfæst verecundus, 86, 56. Seó scamfæste næcednys pudibunda (pudica .i. erubescens) nuditas, Hpt. Gl. 492, 53. Mǽden is sceamfæst, Lchdm. iii. 188, 6. Scamfæst, 192, 2. On óðre wísan sint tó lǽranne ða scamleásan, on óðre ða scamfæstan (verecundi), Past. 31; Swt. 205, 21. [Sannte Marȝe wass shammfæst, Orm. 2175. Wyfmen þet byeþ ssamuest, Ayenb. 222, 20. Schamefast chastite, Chauc. Kn. T. 1197. Schamefast verecundus, pudorosus, Prompt. Parv. 443.] v. un-sceamfæst. sceam-fæst

Mots connexes: 1 Tim. 2, 9 where Wicklif has