unˈshamefaced, a.
(un-1 9 b.)
| 1533 Frith Mirror A vii b, They..with vnshamefaced beggynge, polle them so nye, that in a maner they leue nothinge behinde. 1545 Joye Exp. Dan. 145 The vnshamefaced arrogant boldenes and serpentine fraudes of anticryste. 1603 Holland Plut. Mor. 23 This so bolde and unshamefaced queane. 1647 Lilly Christian Astrology cviii. 540 Cruel men,..bloody minded, unshameface't, sumtuous. |
Hence unˈshamefacedness.
| 1596 Lady Bacon Let. in Birch Mem. (1754) II. 218 Both unchast and impudent, with as it were an incorrigible unshamefacedness. 1611 Cotgr., Impudence, impudence,..vnshamefac'dness. 1632 Holland Cyrupædia 4 It seemeth, that unthankefulnesse is accompanied especially with unshamefacedness. |