bashless

English

Etymology

bash +‎ -less

Adjective

bashless (comparative more bashless, superlative most bashless)

1. (obsolete) shameless
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     Come on Maister schoole-maister, be not so bashlesse, we say, that the fairest are ever the gentlest

Derived terms

• bashlessness

 

Related terms

• abash
• bashful