shamefacedness

A certain shamefacedness appeared on his hard countenance – something like a blush, if that were a thing possible to conceive.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

There was a certain shamefacedness in her manner when at last she began to explain the object of her errand.

That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

And since this reproach has the character of an arduous evil, just as honor has the character of an arduous good, shamefacedness, which is fear of disgrace, regards first and foremost reproach or ignominy.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

And thus it is called shamefacedness, because the face exhibits the changes of the mind.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

-- This odd state of mind, often called shamefacedness, or false shame, or mauvaise honte, appears to be one of the most efficient of all the causes of blushing.

The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

And a little sense of what might be termed shamefacedness stole over him at the thought that this ignorant boy prized more highly his three leaves of a Bible, picked out of the waste-basket, and possibly was going to know more about it than he, Edgar Ryan, had gleaned from his own handsomely bound copy, wherein his Christian mother had written years ago his own loved name.

Three People 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

I have long felt that the issue of modest versus immodest attire has ignored the word "shamefacedness".

Protecting Our Daughters 2009

She withdrew her fist from the table, dropped the opened hand over the other on her knee, her body relaxing, her wrath passing into a kind of shamefacedness and then into a soft, prolonged laugh.

The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915

With a kind of shamefacedness, yet with an attempt to carry the thing off lightly, he told Uncle Jim, while, inside, his wife told the old mother, that the business of the hotel had gone to pot (he did not say who was the cause of that), and they were selling out to his partner and coming to live on the farm.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

With a kind of shamefacedness, yet with an attempt to carry the thing off lightly, he told Uncle Jim, while, inside, his wife told the old mother, that the business of the hotel had gone to pot (he did not say who was the cause of that), and they were selling out to his partner and coming to live on the farm.

The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897