Word Meanings - SELF-ABASED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.

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• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• GUILTLESS
  1. Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7. 2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted . Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton.
• GUILTINESS
  The quality or state of being guilty.
• HUMBLY
  With humility; lowly. Pope.
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• GUILTILY
  In a guilty manner.
• HUMBLER
  One who, or that which, humbles some one.
• HUMBLE
  humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking
• HUMBLEHEAD
  Humble condition or estate; humility. Chaucer.
• SHAMEFACED
  Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise. Dryden. Note: Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness;
• GUILT-SICK
  Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El.
• SHAMEFUL
  1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful. His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat. Arbuthnot. 2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a
• GUILT
  signifying, the fine or mulct paid for an offence, and afterward the offense itself, and akin to AS. gieldan to pay, E. yield. See Yield, 1. The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from
• SHAMELESS
  1. Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace. "Such shameless bards we have." Pope. Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. Shak. 2. Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent;
• HUMBLEBEE
  The bumblebee. Shak. (more info) hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh. akin to hum. sq.
• GUILTY
  1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered
• SHAMER
  One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed. Beau & Fl.
• HUMBLES
  Entrails of a deer. Johnson.
• SHAME-PROOF
  Shameless. Shak.
• HUMBLENESS
  The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• ASHAMEDLY
  Bashfully.
• ASHAMED
  Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting
• COVER-SHAME
  Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden.
• SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being self-conscious.
• INGUILTY
  Not guilty. Bp. Hall.
• SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.
• ASHAME
  To shame. Barrow.