SENSE OF SHAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sense of shame mean? 

• SENSE OF SHAME (noun)
  The noun SENSE OF SHAME has 1 sense:

1. a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility

  Familiarity information: SENSE OF SHAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSE OF SHAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A motivating awareness of ethical responsibility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting goals

Synonyms:

sense of duty; sense of shame

Hypernyms ("sense of shame" is a kind of...):

conscience; moral sense; scruples; sense of right and wrong (motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions)

 Context examples 

I imagined I saw a mixture of many feelings: a great, though short struggle; half a wish of yielding to truths, half a sense of shame, but habit, habit carried it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were mentioned in terms of such mortifying, yet merited reproach, her sense of shame was severe.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high views that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Meg longed to go and tell Mother, but a sense of shame at her own short-comings, of loyalty to John, who might be cruel, but nobody should know it, restrained her, and after a summary cleaning up, she dressed herself prettily, and sat down to wait for John to come and be forgiven.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was more alive to the disgrace which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)