Sceam-fæst
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - sceam-fæst
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- 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