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▪ I. unˈblushing, vbl. n.
[un-1 13 or un-2 8.]
The fact of not blushing or of recovering from a blush.
1596Warner Alb. Eng. xi. lxvi. (1597) 280 Her blusshing, and vnblushing, made that Stafford doubted whether It pleased, or displeased.
▪ II. unˈblushing, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
1. Not blushing or reddening.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars ii. lvi, People vntrue To God and man,..And with vnblushing faces formost thrust. a1711Ken Hymnotheo ix, That [Beauty] modest, pure, this full of Stain, Unblushing, vain. a1757T. Edwards Sonn. xiv. 3 That bold bad man..pretending still With hard unblushing front the public good. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. Epil., Th' unblushing Barmaid at a country inn. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 124 Bold and unblushing comes Theodore Hooke, For ever enroll'd in rank plagiary's book. 1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fort. I. 207 The very next day, perhaps, she would utter a falsehood with the most unblushing face.
2. Immodest, shameless, unabashed.
1736Thomson Liberty v. 180 The buzz Of masquerade unblushing. 1776Mickle Camoens' Lusiad Introd. 128 This last unblushing falsity, that Gama prays to Christ. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ix. II. 415 He tried to show..that strenuous and unblushing servility, even when least successful, was a sure title to his favour. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 14 In several passages the Athenian praises himself in the most unblushing manner.
Hence unˈblushingly adv., unˈblushingness.
1752Richardson Let. 18 Apr. (1964) 207 For the word Love has enabled some People to talk of a Passion fearlessly, *unblushingly. 1782V. Knox Ess. viii. I. 38 They..end with bankruptcy as naturally, as unreluctantly, and as unblushingly, as if it had been the object of their pursuit. 1812‘Lucius’ in Examiner 5 Oct. 633/1 Though undenied, and even unblushingly acknowledged. 1894Sir E. Sullivan Woman 26 They so unblushingly affect virtues that they have not got.
1891Meredith One of our Conq. xxxviii, The appalling theme..was taken for a proof of the girl's *unblushingness. |