beshame

beshame

English

Etymology

From be- (“at, on, upon”) +‎ shame.

Verb

beshame (third-person singular simple present beshames, present participle beshaming, simple past and past participle beshamed)

1. (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 […]