a. (UN-1 9 b.)
1533. Frith, Mirror, A vii b. They with vnshamefaced beggynge, polle them so nye, that in a maner they leue nothinge behinde.
1545. Joye, Exp. Dan., 145. The vnshamefaced arrogant boldenes and serpentine fraudes of anticryste.
1603. Holland, Plut. Mor., 23. This so bolde and unshamefaced queane.
1647. Lilly, Christian Astrology, cviii. 540. Cruel men, bloody minded, unshamefacet, sumtuous.
Hence Unshamefacedness.
1596. Lady Bacon, Lett., in Birch, Mem. (1754), II. 218. Both unchast and impudent, with as it were an incorrigible unshamefacedness.
1611. Cotgr., Impudence, impudence, vnshamefacdness.
1632. Holland, Cyrupædia, 4. It seemeth, that unthankefulnesse is accompanied especially with unshamefacedness.