different between abashless vs bashless

English

Etymology

abash +? -less

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bæ?.l?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bæ?.l?s/

Adjective

abashless (comparative more abashless, superlative most abashless)

1. (literary) Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame. [Mid 19th century.]

   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,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     I had endured through watches of the dark

     The abashless inquisition of each star,

   • 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! New York: Modern Library, Chapter 4, p. 114,^[3]

     a place created for and by voluptuousness, the abashless and unabashed senses

References

English

Etymology

bash +? -less

Adjective

bashless (comparative more bashless, superlative most bashless)

1. (obsolete) shameless

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Related terms

• abash
• bashful