Obs. (UN-1 12.)
Common c. 1540–90.
a. 1400[?]. Wycliffite Bible, Job xv. 27 (MS. Bodl. 277). Outward fatnesse, that is vnschamefastnesse, hangith doun of his sidis.
a. 1470. Tiptoft, Orat. G. Flamineus (Caxton, 1481), f iv b/1. Supposest thou with thy … unshamefastnes to get that worshipful fame which they gate?
1520. Calisto & Melib., A iij b. Theyre enbawmyng & theyre vnshamfastnes.
1549. Chaloner, Erasm. on Folly, R j b. Whiche their sayd iugglyng they conueigh yet by so happie an vnshamefastnesse, as … Ciuilians haue cause … to enuie.
1608. Willet, Hexapla Exod., 403. Contrarie hereunto are immodestie and vnshamefastnes.
1653. W. Ramesey, Astrol. Restored, 73. This is the face of boldness,… unshamefastness, resoluteness and confidence.
