Unbashful

a. (UN-¹ 7.)

1563.  Man, Musculus’ Commonpl., 13 b. The benefite of clere conscience, and the unbashfull [L. intrepidæ] familiaritie with God.

1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., II. iii. 50. In my youth I … did not with vnbashfull forehead woe The meanes of weaknesse and debilitie.

1611.  Florio, Inuerecondo, vnbashfull, impudent.

1834.  Wordsw., Even. Voluntaries, vi. 17. Meek eve shuts up the whole usurping host (Unbashful dwarfs each glittering at his post).

1858.  Masson, Milton, I. 280. Throughout all Milton’s works there may be discerned a vein of noble egotism, of unbashful self-assertion.

1887.  Swinburne, Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894), 140. The laurels of Gotham, with which the critical sages … have bedecked his unbashful brows.

  Hence Unbashfully adv., Unbashfulness.

1795.  Monthly Rev., XVIII. 129. Probably Mr. Pye cared not unbashfully to contest the authority of Aristotle.

1611.  Florio, Inuerecondia, vnbashfulnes, impudency.