beshame
English
editEtymology
editFrom be- (“at, on, upon”) + shame.
Verb
editbeshame (third-person singular simple present beshames, present participle beshaming, simple past and past participle beshamed)
- (archaic, transitive) To shame; put to shame.
- 1832, The Philological Museum:
- Controversy is the element of the learned person who has undertaken to beshame and chastise me: […]
- 1902, John George Gibson, Watching for the daybreak! 31 sermons:
- But His approval was a conventional outrage! What can be less in accord with the customs of society than to criticize and beshame one's host, especially if we judge him out of his own mouth?
- 2010, David Ben Moshe, The Secret of the Jews: Letters to Nietzsche:
- […] a leading historian of the period, wrote, "Although they assimilated with those nations completely, they will find no peace among them; for the nations will always revile and beshame them, plot against them and falsely accuse them in matters […]