[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Openness, effrontery, shamelessness.

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a. 1674.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. II. 117. They resorted … to Mass … with the same Barefacedness.

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1825.  Cobbett, Rur. Rides, 427. The barefacedness of the lie.

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