† ˈshamely, a. and adv. Obs.
Forms: see shame n.
[f. shame n. + -ly1 and -ly2.]
A. adj.
1. Shamefaced, modest; abashed. rare.
| a 1100 Aldhelm Gloss. 3671 in Napier O.E. Glosses 97/2 Pudibunda, .i. pudica..sceamlic. Ibid. 144/2 Pudibunda, .i. erubescens, scamlic. c 1482 J. Kay tr. Caoursin's Siege of Rhodes (1870) ¶12 The Turkes wyth loe chiere and halfe shamely contenaunce, departed from theym. |
2. Shameful, disgraceful.
| c 1205 Lay. 20462 Þenne were his cun iscend mid scomeliche witen. c 1350 Will. Palerne 556, & þat were a schamly schenchip to schende me euer. c 1425 Cast. Persev. 2051 in Macro Plays 138 Mankynde for to schylde & schete fro dedly synne & schamely schot. |
B. adv. Disgracefully, shamefully.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 69 Shameliche hem oigredeð and fule shendeð. a 1225 Ancr. R. 310 A mon þet were idemed uor a luðer murðre to beon forbernd al cwic, oðer scheomeliche anhonged. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 128 Bot, I trow, ful tyd, ouer-tan þat he were, So þat schomely to schort he schote of his ame. 1471 Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) I. 27 My..husbond..will schamely put me to deth yf y accomplyssh not..his comaundement. 1558 G. Cavendish Poems (1825) II. 66 Who shamely doth, of long will not be raced. |