'For shame' definitions:
Definition of 'For shame'
From: GCIDE
- Shame \Shame\, n. [OE. shame, schame, AS. scamu, sceamu; akin to OS. & OHG. scama, G. scham, Icel. sk["o]mm, shkamm, Sw. & Dan. skam, D. & G. schande, Goth. skanda shame, skaman sik to be ashamed; perhaps from a root skam meaning to cover, and akin to the root (kam) of G. hemd shirt, E. chemise. Cf. Sham.]
- 1. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal. [1913 Webster]
- HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images, That blush at their degenerate progeny. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt. [1913 Webster]
- Ye have borne the shame of the heathen. --Ezek. xxxvi. 6. [1913 Webster]
- Honor and shame from no condition rise. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace. [1913 Webster]
- O C?sar, what a wounding shame is this! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Guides who are the shame of religion. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts. --Isa. xlvii. 3. [1913 Webster]
- For shame! you should be ashamed; shame on you!
- To put to shame, to cause to feel shame; to humiliate; to disgrace. "Let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil." --Ps. xl. 14. [1913 Webster]