abashless

English

Etymology

abash +‎ -less

Pronunciation

Adjective

abashless (comparative more abashless, superlative most abashless)

  1. (literary) Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame. [Mid 19th century.][1]
    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,
    • 1896, Emily Dickinson, untitled poem in Mabel Loomis Todd (ed.), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series, Boston: Roberts Brothers, p. 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, Absalom, Absalom! New York: Modern Library, Chapter 4, p. 114,
      a place created for and by voluptuousness, the abashless and unabashed senses

References
  1. “abashless” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
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