shamefacedness

Thus feeling, there is generally some token of uneasiness or shamefacedness by which the experienced magistrate or judge, and most certainly his friends and fellows, can perceive his perjury.

From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood

Any one could see where the daughter behind her got the timidity and shamefacedness which now caused her to stand back and look indifferently away.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Lactantius, in the third of his Divine Institutions, shows that Plato's community of property and women took away frugality, abstinence, shamefacedness, modesty and justice itself.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880 by Aaron Walker

It is not uncommon to hear a quiet, silent man of rank unjustly suspected of pride and haughtiness; but there could be no such mistake here—his shamefacedness was patent to all men.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

When they are asked by the Spaniards “Who is So-and-so?” and they cannot avoid naming him by his own name, they do it with a certain shamefacedness and embarrassment.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair