abashless
adjUK /əˈbæʃ.lɪs/ · US /əˈbæʃ.ləs/
Etymology From abash + -less.
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Literary Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame.
- Nor wanted words as ready and as big As the part he played, the bold abashless one.1868, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Part 2, lines 1010-1011, p. 127:
- I had endured through watches of the dark The abashless inquisition of each star,1895, Francis Thompson, Sister Songs, London: John Lane, Part the First, p. 19:
2 more examples
- Where every bird is bold to go / And bees abashless play, / The foreigner before he knocks / Must thrust the tears away.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:
- a place created for and by voluptuousness, the abashless and unabashed senses1936, William Faulkner, chapter 4, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, page 114:
- Derived terms
- abashlessly