unabashed, ppl. a.
(ʌnəˈbæʃt)
[un-1 8.]
Not abashed; bold, undaunted; not disconcerted or put out.
| 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xxvii. 1 If wee dare not with unabashed minde set him ageinste all oure enemies. 1592 Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xl. 177 Shee vnabashed, mounting now the Skaffold, theare attends The fatall Stroke. 1728 Pope Dunc. ii. 147 Earless on high, stood unabash'd De Foe. 1772 Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 104, I..shall show an unabashed..countenance. 1851 Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. ii. 749 Fix thy brave blue English eyes on mine..With unabashed and unabated gaze. 1891 Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxxii, Detected in their theft, the priests were still unabashed. |
Hence unaˈbashedly adv.
| 1890 Talmage in Voice (N.Y.) 13 Feb., We go easily and unabashedly into sin. |