Meaning of cover-shame | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something used to conceal infamy.
   obsolete, uncountable
2. A plant, savin (Juniperus sabina), which was historically used as both a contraceptive and to induce abortions.
   uncountable

Examples

“Give place then exprobrating fruit, and come / Thou Cover-shame, old Fig-tree, in the Room: / Though men of all the fruit, that hangs o'th' tree, / Should love none less for your obscurity”

“O impudence! O rogue! O villain! Nay, if he be such a man, my righteous spirit rises at him! Does he put on holy garments, for a cover-shame of lewdness?”

“If this were believed, men would make more account of sincerity, which will only give us boldness, and not seek for cover-shames; the confidence whereof, as it maketh men now more presumptuous, so it will expose them hereafter to the greater shame.”

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