different between bashless vs abashless
bashless
English
Etymology
bash +? -less
Adjective
bashless (comparative more bashless, superlative most bashless)
- (obsolete) shameless
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Related terms
- abash
- bashful
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abashless
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)
- (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
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