mauvaise honte

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Noun

 * 1) Shyness, especially when affected; false modesty.
 * 2) * 1826,, Four Years in France, Henry Colburn (publisher), pages 240–242, quoted in The Monthly Review, Volume III, Number XI (September 1826), page 95:
 * The practice, from whatever it may arise, is very embarrassing to the mauvaise honte of an Englishman: this may easily be surmounted, when it is perceived that the first visit is always considered as a polite attention.
 * 1) * 1831, Thomas Babington Macaulay, letter to Hannah M. Macaulay, printed in George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume I, Longmans, Green, and Co. (1876), page 239:
 * Nothing but strong excitement and a great occasion overcomes a certain reserve and mauvaise honte which I have in public speaking; not a mauvaise honte which in the least confuses me or makes me hesitate for a word, but which keeps me from putting any fervour into my tone or my action.
 * 1) * 1875 April, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Photography, in Quarterly Review, #101 (April 1857), page 2:
 * Slight improvements in processes,and slight varieties in conclusions, are discussed as if they involved the welfare of mankind. They seek each other's sympathy, and they resent each other's interference, with an ardour of expression at variance with all the sobrieties of business, and the habits of reserve; and old-fashioned English mauvaise honte is extinguished in the excitement...
 * 1) * 1875 April, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Photography, in Quarterly Review, #101 (April 1857), page 2:
 * Slight improvements in processes,and slight varieties in conclusions, are discussed as if they involved the welfare of mankind. They seek each other's sympathy, and they resent each other's interference, with an ardour of expression at variance with all the sobrieties of business, and the habits of reserve; and old-fashioned English mauvaise honte is extinguished in the excitement...
 * Slight improvements in processes,and slight varieties in conclusions, are discussed as if they involved the welfare of mankind. They seek each other's sympathy, and they resent each other's interference, with an ardour of expression at variance with all the sobrieties of business, and the habits of reserve; and old-fashioned English mauvaise honte is extinguished in the excitement...

Noun

 * 1) false modesty
 * ,, , A Madame Celeste de Palaiseau, in Œuvres, volume I:
 * "fr"

- Par je ne sais quelle bonté, ou, si l’on veut, mauvaise honte, je n’ai pas la force de rien refuser de ce que l’on me demande avec opiniâtreté.


 * 1) * 1673,, Épîtres (Epistles), Épitre III:
 * "fr"

- Mais aucun de ces maux n’égala les rigueurs Que la mauvaise honte exerça dans les cœurs.