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English
Etymology
abash + -less
Pronunciation
Adjective
abashless (comparative more abashless, superlative most abashless)
- (literary) Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame.
- Synonyms: unabashed, barefaced, brazen, shameless, unblushing, unshrinking
1868, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Part 2, lines 1010-1011, p. 127:Nor wanted words as ready and as big
As the part he played, the bold abashless one.
1895, Francis Thompson, Sister Songs, London: John Lane, Part the First, p. 19:I had endured through watches of the dark
The abashless inquisition of each star,
a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd, editors, Poems, Third Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1896, page 160:Where every bird is bold to go / And bees abashless play, / The foreigner before he knocks / Must thrust the tears away.
1936, William Faulkner, chapter 4, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, page 114:a place created for and by voluptuousness, the abashless and unabashed senses
Derived terms
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abashless”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.