Wiktionary

shameless

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English shameles, shamelees, schameles, schomeles, schomeleas, from Old English sċamlēas, sċeamlēas (“without shame; shameless”), from Proto-Germanic *skamalausaz (“shameless”), equivalent to shame +‎ -less. Cognate with West Frisian skamteleas (“shameless”), Dutch schaamteloos (“shameless”), German schamlos (“shameless”), Danish skamløs (“shameless”), Swedish skamlös (“shameless”), Icelandic skammlaus (“shameless; unashamed”).

AdjectiveEdit

shameless (comparative more shameless, superlative most shameless)

  1. Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something considered wrong; immodest; unable to feel disgrace.
  2. (obsolete) Not subject to shaming or reproach from the outside.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, OCLC 8728872, lines 38–41, page 62:
      He shall be as now nameles,
      But he shall not be blameles,
      Nor he shall not be shameles;
      For sure he wrought amys, […]

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