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frontless, a.|ˈfrʌntlɪs|
Also 7 frontles(se.
[f. front n. + -less.]
Having no front.
1. fig. Unblushing, shameless, audacious, daring; = foreheadless a. Now rare.
1605B. Jonson Volpone iv. v, The most prodigious, and most frontlesse piece Of solid impudence. 1615Chapman Odyss. i. 425 Command to towns of their nativity These frontless wooers. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 10 The whelps of that Roman litter have thus cast frontless imputations upon them. 1739Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 99 As if the author had impos'd upon them the most frontless..absurdity. 1791Boswell Johnson 10 Sept. an. 1773 The duchess had not superior parts, but was a bold frontless woman. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 464 We have..editors frontless enough to advocate them. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. II. xi. 79 The repulsiveness of a republic..with its frontless love of money. 1886Swinburne Miscell. 297 A brainless and frontless trafficker in scandal.
2. Of a house: That has had its front destroyed.
1887Pall Mall G. 1 Mar. 12/1 Diano Marina is a wreck..The passengers in the trains look into frontless houses.
Hence ˈfrontlessly adv., ˈfrontlessness.
1618Chapman Hesiod 143 The worse depraving the better; and that frontlessly. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Ruffian 83 Hee will intrude most frontlesly into any company. 1698R. Fergusson Ecclesiastick 5 Without a strange frontlessness, they can neither deny [etc.]. 1709J. Logan in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. X. 370, I cannot persuade myself that any man will be so frontlessly base. |