"abashless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From abash + -less.",
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      "form": "more abashless",
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          "word": "abashlessly"
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        {
          "ref": "1868, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Part 2, lines 1010-1011, p. 127:",
          "text": "Nor wanted words as ready and as big\nAs the part he played, the bold abashless one.",
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        {
          "ref": "1895, Francis Thompson, Sister Songs, London: John Lane, Part the First, p. 19:",
          "text": "I had endured through watches of the dark\nThe abashless inquisition of each star,",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd, editors, Poems, Third Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1896, page 160:",
          "text": "Where every bird is bold to go / And bees abashless play, / The foreigner before he knocks / Must thrust the tears away.",
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        {
          "ref": "1936, William Faulkner, chapter 4, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, page 114:",
          "text": "a place created for and by voluptuousness, the abashless and unabashed senses",
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        "Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame."
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          "embarrassed",
          "embarrassed"
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          "conceal",
          "conceal"
        ],
        [
          "elicit",
          "elicit"
        ],
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          "shame",
          "shame"
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          "The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles",
          "w:Shorter Oxford English Dictionary"
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          "Oxford University Press",
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        "(literary) Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame."
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          "word": "unabashed"
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          "word": "barefaced"
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          "word": "brazen"
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          "word": "shameless"
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      "ipa": "/əˈbæʃ.ləs/",
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  "word": "abashless"
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    {
      "word": "abashlessly"
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          "ref": "1868, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Part 2, lines 1010-1011, p. 127:",
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        {
          "ref": "1895, Francis Thompson, Sister Songs, London: John Lane, Part the First, p. 19:",
          "text": "I had endured through watches of the dark\nThe abashless inquisition of each star,",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd, editors, Poems, Third Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1896, page 160:",
          "text": "Where every bird is bold to go / And bees abashless play, / The foreigner before he knocks / Must thrust the tears away.",
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        },
        {
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        "(literary) Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame."
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          "word": "barefaced"
        },
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        },
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          "word": "shameless"
        },
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        },
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        }
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