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Shamefast

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Shame´fast
a.1.Modest; shamefaced.
Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness.
- Chaucer.
[Conscience] is a blushing shamefast spirit.
- Shak.
Modest apparel with shamefastness.
- 1 Tim. ii. 9 (Rev. Ver.).


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He is shamefast and bashful with those who surround him and wishes not to be discovered by them, just as one instinctively avoids all lavish display of comfort or wealth in the presence of a poor friend.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
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