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As nouns the difference between shamelessness and hide

is that shamelessness is the state or characteristic of being shameless while hide is mainly British A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.

As a verb hide is

to put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.

shamelessness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless.
  • * 1853 , (Charles Kingsley), Hypatia , ch. 7:
    • [H]e added to all his other shamelessness this, that he offered the patriarch a large sum of money to buy a bishopric of him.
  • * 1914 , (Joseph Conrad), The Arrow of Gold , ch. 1:
    • "For instance as to her shamelessness . She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."
  • * 1919 , (Mary Roberts Rinehart), Dangerous Days , ch. 50:
    • She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.
  • (countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless.
  • * 1872 May 18, "The Womens Rights' Convention in New York," The Spectator , Volume 45, p. 624:
    • Shoals of letters are published every week from all parts of the Union telling stories of the unhappiness produced by marriage, sometimes mere bursts of ill-temper, often cynical shamelessnesses , occasionally stories of deep pathos.
  • * 1963 , (James Joyce) and David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (2002 edition), ISBN 9781893311268, p. 109:
    • He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his noseglow nose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses about ethers everybody ever he met. . . .
  • * 2006 , Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia , ISBN 9781843862192, p. 104:
    • He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.

    Synonyms

    * (state or characteristic of being shameless) immodesty, unself-consciousness

    hide

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hiden, huden, from (etyl) . Related to (l) and (l).

    Verb

  • To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
  • * 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
    Synonyms
    * (transitive) conceal, hide away, secrete * (intransitive) go undercover, hide away, hide oneself, hide out, lie low
    Antonyms
    * (transitive) disclose, expose, reveal, show, uncover * (intransitive) reveal oneself, show oneself
    Derived terms
    * hide and seek / hide-and-seek * hideaway * hideout * hide one's light under a bushel * hider * one can run but one can't hide

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , 'to cover'. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) The skin of an animal.
  • (obsolete, or, derogatory) The human skin.
  • * Shakespeare
    • O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide !
  • (uncountable, informal, usually, US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
  • * 1957 , (Ayn Rand), Francisco d'Anconia's speech in (Atlas Shrugged):
    • The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide —as I think he will.
    Synonyms
    * (animal skin) pelt, skin * (land measure) carucate
    Derived terms
    * cowhide * damn your hide * have someone's hide * rawhide * tan someone's hide

    Verb

  • To beat with a whip made from hide.
  • * 1891 , Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding
    • He ran last week, and he was hided , and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) hide, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A medieval land measure equal to the amount of land that could sustain one free family; usually 100 acres. Forty hides equalled a barony.

    • Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words English irregular verbs