shamefast

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈʃeɪmfɑːst/

Adjective

shamefast

1. (archaic) Bashful, modest; shy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid / Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth [...].

   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 141:

     But the women are alwayes covered about their middles with a skin, and very shamefast to be seene bare.

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