10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHAMEFASTNESS»
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1
Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature
In Alma's castle, Guyon apprehends his reflection in the personification
ofshamefastness, whose face “flashes” with “blushing bloud.” Alma informs
Guyon: “She is the fountaine of your modestee; / You shamefast are, but
shamefastness it selfe ...
2
Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early ...
modern blush requires the physical presence of another to experience a sense of
social shaming.14 Thomas Rogers's The Anatomie of the Minde (1576) might
seem to offer an early modern embarrassment in “Shamefastness,” a bashful ...
3
The Tested Woman Plot: Women's Choices, Men's Judgments, and ...
Wherefore Aristotle calleth shamefastness a virtue, not for that it is a true virtue
indeed (for it most often reigneth in children, who are not capable subjects of
moral virtues) but because it is the seed of virtue, or a spur to virtue, or a bridle
from ...
4
Typographical Antiquities Or The History of Printing in ...
The Hat, of steel, or iron, is given to the knight to signify shamefastness. For a
knight without shamefastness may not be obeysant to the Order of Chivalry. And
all thus as shamefastness maketh a man to be ashamed and causeth to cast
down ...
Joseph Ames, William Herbert, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1810
Line 18. Hearts swerved out of kind] “ Degenerate; turned aside from natural
goodness.” Surrey uses the same expression before in the second book, line 715
. Line 34. Ere I thee stain shamefastness] Modesty. In the Prompluarium
Parvulorum ...
Henry Howard earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt, G.F. Nott, 1815
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Passion's Triumph Over Reason: A History of the Moral ...
59 Bryskett follows this by developing a contrast between shamefastness and
magnanimity (Arthur's nominal virtue), the one being disposed to 'correct vs
whensoeuer we shal go beyond the bounds ofreason to check vs with the bridle',
the ...
Christopher Tilmouth, 2010
7
Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance
8 Most writers are content to recommend shamefastness to women, the young
especially, without warning of excess, seeing in it a corrective to pride and desire
for honor and public fame. An Italian, however, was more anxious over the
danger ...
8
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Chaucerian and Other Pieces
... wele ; But ay, me thoughte, he loved her nere a dele. Eek Shamefastness was
there, as I took hede, That blusshed rede, and durst nat ben a-knowe She lover
was, for thereof had she drede ; 1200 She stood and hing her visage down alowe
...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter W. Skeat, 2008
9
Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook: Constructions of Femininity ...
Now shamefastness and sobriety be the inseparable companions of chastity,
insomuch as she cannot be chaste that is not ... she gave it the veil of
shamefastness, wherewith it should be covered and that for a great
commendation that whoso ...
10
The Epistles to Timothy and Titus
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with
shamefastness and sobriety ; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly 10
array ; but (which becometh women professing godliness) lively faith in God's
mercy.
Alfred Edward Humphreys, 1925
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHAMEFASTNESS»
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Its lexical equivalents include "awe, reverence, self-respect, shamefastness, sense of honor, sobriety, moderation, regard for others, regard for the helpless, ... «Broadway World, Feb 15»
400 years of the King James Bible
... and is acutely sensitive to the way that even the smallest textual adjustments, such as the modernization of "shamefastness" to "shamefacedness" in St Paul's ... «Virtue Online, Feb 11»
