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shameless, a.|ˈʃeɪmlɪs|
Forms: see shame n. Also 7 superl. shamelest.
[OE. sc(e)amléas, sc(e)omléas: see shame n. and -less.]
1. Lacking shame, destitute of feelings of modesty; impudent, audacious, immodest; insensible to disgrace.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. ix. 60 Se læce bið micles to bald & to scomleas þe gæð æfter oðerra monna husum lacniende, & hæfð on his aᵹnum nebbe oþene wunde unlacnode. a1225Ancr. R. 170 Schomeleas is þe mon oðer þeo wummon þet deð eni untoweschipe, oðer seið, biuoren ancren. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 20 To þe schamlese schalk schewden hur lettres. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3508 Fy! schamëles vnworthy gouernour! 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 45 Scoffe on vile Fiend, and shamelesse Curtizan. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. xv. viii. (1622) 232 Vatinius was one of the shamelest monsters of his [Nero's] court. 1683W. Hedges Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 63 Though these men are so shameless as to deny it. 1725Pope Odyss. viii. 358 But there remain, ye guilty, in my pow'r, 'Till Jove refunds his shameless daughter's dow'r. 1859Tennyson Elaine 100 Lo the shameless ones who take Their pastime now the trustful King is gone! 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn ix. 65 A man of refined culture..but the most cynically shameless liver and talker even in Rome.
absol.c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxi. 204 On oðre wisan sint to læronne ða scamleasan, on oðre ða scamfæstan. 1825Scott Talism. xv, ‘Peace, shameless!’ said the King.
2. Indicating or characterized by absence of shame or modesty. Of actions: Indicating absence of shame on the part of the agent, impudent.
c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) l. 3 Of þysse scamleasan scylde ᵹeclænsa me. 1533Frith Answ. More (1829) 156 Then fall they to a shameless boldness & let not to deny the Scripture & all. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. ix. 200 This is the same shameless self-contradicting Accusation, and needs no other Answer. 1853Grote Greece ii. lxxxiv. §xi. 145 It was found practicable to convict the delinquent of shameless falshood. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §2. 472 He [James] degraded the nobility by a shameless sale of peerages.
absol.c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxi. 206 Forðæm he spræc ðas word þe he wolde ðara scamleasena scylda tælende ᵹeopenian.
†3. Suffering no shame, free from disgrace. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. III. 151 For hou so that the cause wende, The trouthe is schameles ate ende, Bot what thing that is troutheles, It mai noght wel be schameles. c1440Alphabet of Tales 144 Lorde Jesu! delyuer me & safe me shameles of þis Iewis at þis tyme.
†4. (See quot.) Obs. rare.
1552Udall tr. Geminus' Anat. B vij b, The bone of the foreheade,..of some other it is called the shameles bone [orig. os inuerecundum], or the bone of the common senses.
5. quasi-adv.
a1541Barnes Wks. (1573) 311/2 Open whoredome, & abhominable and detestable vncleannes, that is now vsed shamelesse in the worlde. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 202 Beyond imagination is the wrong That she this day hath shamelesse throwne on me.
6. Comb.
1555Ridley in Coverdale Godly Lett. (1564) 87 The abhominable desolacion..of proude Senacheryb, of the shameles faced kyng & of the Babilonical beaste. |