a. (UN-1 9 b.)

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1533.  Frith, Mirror, A vii b. They … with vnshamefaced beggynge, polle them so nye, that in a maner they leue nothinge behinde.

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1545.  Joye, Exp. Dan., 145. The vnshamefaced arrogant boldenes and serpentine fraudes of anticryste.

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1603.  Holland, Plut. Mor., 23. This so bolde and unshamefaced queane.

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1647.  Lilly, Christian Astrology, cviii. 540. Cruel men,… bloody minded, unshameface’t, sumtuous.

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  Hence Unshamefacedness.

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1596.  Lady Bacon, Lett., in Birch, Mem. (1754), II. 218. Both unchast and impudent, with as it were an incorrigible unshamefacedness.

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1611.  Cotgr., Impudence, impudence,… vnshamefac’dness.

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1632.  Holland, Cyrupædia, 4. It seemeth, that unthankefulnesse is accompanied especially with unshamefacedness.

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