Unabashed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.] Not abashed; bold, undaunted; not disconcerted or put out.

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1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xxvii. 1. If wee dare not with unabashed minde set him ageinste all oure enemies.

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1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VIII. xl. 177. Shee vnabashed, mounting now the Skaffold, theare attends The fatall Stroke.

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1728. Pope, Dunc., II. 147. Earless on high, stood unabash’d De Foe.

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1772. Priestley, Inst. Relig. (1782), II. 104. I … shall show an unabashed … countenance.

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1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., II. 749. Fix thy brave blue English eyes on mine … With unabashed and unabated gaze.

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1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xxxii. Detected in their theft, the priests were still unabashed.

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Hence Unabashedly adv.

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1890. Talmage, in Voice (N. Y.), 13 Feb. We go easily and unabashedly into sin.

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