单词 | frontless |
释义 | frontlessadj. 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). < adj.1607 |
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