单词 | unblushing |
释义 | unblushingn. The fact of not blushing or of recovering from a blush. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > with blushing > not or recovering from unblushing1596 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxvi. 280 Her blusshing, and vn-blusshing, made that Stafford doubted whether It pleased, or displeased. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unblushingadj. 1. Not blushing or reddening. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > shameless or thick-skinned shamelessc897 hard-skinnedc1450 past shame1509 unblushing1595 steel-browed1600 thick-skinned1602 dead to shame1780 case-hardened1836 unsnubbable1847 hard-shelled1848 pachydermatous1849 hard-boiled1884 armour-plated1887 tough-minded1927 chalcenterous1946 chalcenteric1964 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. lvi. sig. I3v People vntrue To God and man,..And with vnblushing faces formost thrust. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo ix in Wks. (1721) III. 265 That [Beauty] modest, pure, this full of Stain, Unblushing, vain. a1757 T. Edwards Sonnets (1758) xiv. 3 That bold bad man..pretending still With hard unblushing front the public good. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer Epil. Th' unblushing Bar-maid of a country inn. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 124 Bold and unblushing comes Theodore Hooke, For ever enroll'd in rank plagiary's book. 1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 207 The very next day, perhaps, she would utter a falsehood with the most unblushing face. 2. Immodest, shameless, unabashed. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > shameless shamelessc897 unshamefasta1100 unshamedc1384 unshamefulc1430 unshamousa1500 unshamefaceda1533 unshameless1555 blushless1566 brazen-faced1571 brazen1573 bashless1578 brassy1596 foreheaded16.. foreheadlessa1603 frontless1607 browless1615 basilisco-proof1649 inverecund1657 perfrict1660 brazen-broweda1682 barefaced1704 cool1723 unblushing1736 brassed1742 inerubescent1788 bald-faced1836 bronzed1841 brazen-fronted1842 brazed1884 1736 J. Thomson Prospect: 5th Pt. Liberty 180 The buzz Of masquerade unblushing. 1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. cxxviii This last unblushing falsity, that Gama prays to Christ. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 415 He tried to show..that strenuous and unblushing servility, even when least successful, was a sure title to his favour. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 14 In several passages the Athenian praises himself in the most unblushing manner. Derivatives unˈblushingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adverb] > shamelessly shamelesslyc897 unshamefastly1382 unshamefullyc1400 unshamelyc1480 shamelessa1541 blushlessly1604 frontlessly1618 brazen-facedly1624 with (an) open face1653 barefacedly1684 brazenly1714 unblushingly1752 coolly1844 blatantly1851 1752 S. Richardson Let. 18 Apr. (1964) 207 For the word Love has enabled some People to talk of a Passion fearlessly, unblushingly. 1782 V. Knox Ess. I. viii. 38 They..end with bankruptcy as naturally, as unreluctantly, and as unblushingly, as if it had been the object of their pursuit. 1812 ‘Lucius’ in Examiner 5 Oct. 633/1 Though undenied, and even unblushingly acknowledged. 1894 E. Sullivan Woman 26 They so unblushingly affect virtues that they have not got. unˈblushingness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > shamelessness unshamefulnessc950 unshamefastness?a1400 shamelessness1540 unshameless1555 shamefastness1589 unshamefacedness1596 flagrancy1599 blatancy1610 flagrance1634 brass1642 frontlessness1698 barefacedness1702 bronze1729 coolness1751 shamefacedness1827 bold-facedness1832 brazenness1861 unblushingness1891 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. x. 210 The appalling theme..was taken for a proof of the girl's unblushingness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1596adj.1595 |
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