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单词 frontless
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frontlessadj.

/ˈfrʌntlɪs/
Forms: Also 1600s frontles(se.
Etymology: < front n. + -less suffix.
Having no front.
1. figurative. Unblushing, shameless, audacious, daring; = foreheadless adj. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > shameless
shamelessc897
unshamefasta1100
unshamedc1384
unshamefulc1430
unshamousa1500
unshamefaceda1533
unshameless1555
blushless1566
brazen-faced1571
brazen1573
bashless1578
brassy1596
foreheaded16..
foreheadlessa1603
frontless1607
browless1615
basilisco-proof1649
inverecund1657
perfrict1660
brazen-broweda1682
barefaced1704
cool1723
unblushing1736
brassed1742
inerubescent1788
bald-faced1836
bronzed1841
brazen-fronted1842
brazed1884
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. v. sig. K2 The most prodigious, and most frontlesse piece Of solid impudence. View more context for this quotation
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) i. 425 Command to towns of their nativity These frontless wooers.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 10) 814 The whelpes of that Romane litter have thus..cast frontlesse imputations upon them.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber v. 79 As if the author had impos'd upon them the most frontless..Absurdity.
1785 J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 10 Sept. 1773, 202 The duchess had not superior parts, but was a bold frontless woman.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 464 We have..editors frontless enough to advocate them.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. II. xi. 79 The repulsiveness of a republic..with its frontless love of money.
1886 A. C. Swinburne Misc. 297 A brainless and frontless trafficker in scandal.
2. Of a house: That has had its front destroyed.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > with front destroyed
frontless1887
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Mar. 12/1 Diano Marina is a wreck..The passengers in the trains look into frontless houses.

Derivatives

ˈfrontlessly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adverb] > shamelessly
shamelesslyc897
unshamefastly1382
unshamefullyc1400
unshamelyc1480
shamelessa1541
blushlessly1604
frontlessly1618
brazen-facedly1624
with (an) open face1653
barefacedly1684
brazenly1714
unblushingly1752
coolly1844
blatantly1851
1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks 143 The worse depraving the better; and that frontlessly.
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xvii. 132 Hee will intrude most frontlesly into any Company.
1709 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 370 I cannot persuade myself that any man will be so frontlessly base.
ˈfrontlessness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > shamelessness
unshamefulnessc950
unshamefastness?a1400
shamelessness1540
unshameless1555
shamefastness1589
unshamefacedness1596
flagrancy1599
blatancy1610
flagrance1634
brass1642
frontlessness1698
barefacedness1702
bronze1729
coolness1751
shamefacedness1827
bold-facedness1832
brazenness1861
unblushingness1891
1698 R. Ferguson View Ecclesiastick 5 Without a strange frontlessness, they can neither deny [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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