ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. MHG. ungeschamt, -schemt, MDa. vuskæmmet.] a. Not put to shame. b. Unashamed.

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1382.  Wyclif, 2 Tim. ii. 15. To ȝyue thi self prouable, or able, werk man to God, vnschamyd, or worthi not for to be schamed.

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1450.  Rolls of Parlt., V. 176/2. If it ever shall like our Lord, that I dey otherwise than in my bedde, my blode unshamed.

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a. 1470.  Harding, Chron., CXX. xiv. Thus by witte she kept her selfe vnshamed.

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1562.  Legh, Armory (1597), 62. To keepe his cote armour vnshamed in tryall.

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1700.  Dryden, Pal. & Arc., III. 741. Unsham’d, though foil’d, he does the best he can.

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1725.  C. Pitt, Vida’s Art of Poetry, ii. 76. Th’ immortal Virgil … Shines out unsham’d, and tow’rs above the rest.

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1838.  Mrs. Browning, Seraphim, I. 289. Are ye unshamed that ye cannot dim Your alien brightness to be liker Him?

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1897.  H. N. Howard, Footsteps Proserpine, 97. Afraid to die, This other love thou wouldst unshamed deny?

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