▪ I. † unaˈbased, ppl. a.1 Obs.
Forms: 5 unabaiste, Sc. -abasit, -yt, 6 Sc. onabasit, unabaset.
[Northern and Sc. var. unabashed a.]
Undaunted.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 1378 Sir Boys vn-abaiste alle he buskes hyme a-gaynes. c 1470 Henry Wallace ii. 48 He vnabasyt, and nocht gretlie agast, Vpon the hed ane with the steing hitt he. 1513 Douglas æneid vi. iv. 54 Eneas vnabasit..Followis his gyde. Ibid. xi. xvi. 12 Opis..on⁓abasit did behald the ficht. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 437 At the altar he stude vnabaset without al feir. |
▪ II. unaˈbased, ppl. a.2
(un-1 8.)
| 1659 Gauden Tears Ch. iii. iv. 274 They easily preserved the doctrine of Christian Religion uncorrupted,..the reverence of Religion unabased. |