a. rare. [f. ABASH sb. + -LESS.] Unabashed, shameless; the reverse of bashful.
1843. T. F. Barham, trans. Enkheiridion of Hehfaistiown, 218.
| Why rules abashless through the land, from sire to son, | |
| One universal passion, eagerness to have? |
1868. Browning, Ring & Book, i. 127.
| Nor wanted words as ready and as big | |
| As the part he played, the bold abashless one. | |
| Ibid., i. 203. | |
| ’Tis strange then that this else abashless mouth | |
| Should yet maintain, for truth’s sake which is God’s. |
