Middle English Dictionary Entry
shāmelī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | shāmelī adv. Also shamelẹ̄, chamli, shomeli, (early) shemeliche. |
| Etymology | From shāmelī adj. & OE sceamlīce, scam-. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Shamefully, disgracefully; in a manner causing disgrace; in a manner deserving of reproach or condemnation; also, with the feeling of shame [quot.: a1382]; ~ shenden.
Associated quotations
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)69 : Here agene synnes..shameliche hem bigredeð, and fule shendeð biforen al heueneware, and eorðeware and helle ware.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)28/454 : His untohe bere makeð þe to agrisen; Chit te & cheoweð þe & scheomeliche [Tit: schomeliche] schent te, tukeð þe to bismere as huler his hore.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)160/18 : A mon þe were idemet for a luðer morðre to beo forbearnd al cwic oðer scheomeliche [Cai: schemeliche] ahonget, hu walde his heorte stonden?
- c1275 LSSerm.(Clg A.9)186/9 : Adam vre vorme fader adun vel in-to helle; Schomeliche he uor-les þe blisse þat he hedde.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2825 : For non þe dom ne durste lette, And demden him to binden faste, Vp-on an asse swiþe un-wraste, Andelong..And so to lincolne lede, Shamelike in wicke wede.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)3289 : Þe wraiers þat weren in halle, Schamly were þai schende.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2124 : Alle þe men vpon mold no schuld make it oþer, þat i nold brenne þi borwes..& sece neuer til þi-self were chamly destruyed.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.69.3 : Be þei confoundid & shamely dreden [L revereantur], þei þat sechen my soule.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)3.45 : Þenne Meede For hire misdede to þat Mon knelede, And schrof hire of hir sunnes, schomeliche I trouwe.
- a1425 Christ.Belief (LoC 4)5/158 : Þe pynfull rode onely was ordeyned for waryed & cursed folke, þere apon schomely forto dye.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)128 : Bot, I trow, ful tyd ouer-tan þat he were, So þat schomely to schort he schote of his ame.
- c1400 Wycl.DSins (Bod 647)156 : Þus þre partis of þo Chirche synne in glotorye, bot clerkes more schamely, for þei schulden kepe more temperaunce.
- a1425(?a1350) Nicod.(1) (Glb E.9)1439 : Þou has vs schamly schent, and priued vs of oure pray.
- a1450(1414) Whanne alle a kyngdom (Dgb 102)85 : God wil vengeance wiþ trouþe sende, Shamely falsed to shende.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)362/200 : Secretly they ordeyne..to brenne my body and schamly it quelle.
- (1476) Stonor2.16 : The chylld [read: chyllderyn have] ne chaung; ffor they go so schamely that I have pete off them.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)1876 : Ȝif he [Herod] had lafte that of his honde, schamele schent thenne had ben he.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)263 : If he gouerne wele my sone, I shall highly avaunce him, and if he do not, he shalbe shamely shent.
- a1525 Conq.Irel.(Dub 592)140/18 : Iresshe-men..weren shame-fully receyued..& by the berdes..some of ham shamly weren I-shaken & I-draw.