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sceam-líc

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sceam-líc, adj.
shamefast, bashful
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  • Scæemlíc, seó scamfæste

    pudibunda, pudica, erubescens

    ,
      Hpt. Gl. 492, 53.
shameful, base, disgraceful, ignominious
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  • Ðá ongan hé him secgan hú lytel and hú scomlíc ðæs monnes líf biþ hér on worolde . . . and hú wuldorlíc seó éce eádignes biþ,

      Shro. 92, 16.

  • Sceomlíc corruptibilis, Rtl. 6, Scildige scamlícre forgǽgednysse

    praevaricationis rei

    ,
      Jos. 6, 18.

  • Nys ús ná tó secgenne ðone sceamlícan morþ (

    the disgraceful events at the siege of Jerusalem

    ) ðe ðǽr gedón wæs,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 15.

  • Ðæt hé ða sceamlícan þ;ing and ða mánfullan begǽ þ; se res turpes et sceleslas com-mittere, L. Ecg. P. ii. 6; Th. ii. 184, Wæs ðæt feórþe wíte ðæt ealra scamlícost wæs ðæt hundes fleógan cómon

    post muscas caninas in*-*ferentes tam gravia tormenta quam turpia

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      Ors. J; Swt. 38, I.
Etymology
[Þenne were his cun iscend mid scomeliche witen; Laym. 20462. Eni velunge bitweone mon and ancre is so scheomelich and so naked sunne, A. R. 116, 3. O. H. Ger. scama-líh verecundus, pudibundus ; turpis, foedus.]
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v. á-, un-sceamlíc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sceam-líc.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/26557.

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